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Isotopic Evidence for Human Movement into Central England during the Early Neolithic by Neil, Samantha; Evans, Jane; Montgomery, Janet; Scarre, Chris is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.

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Isotope ratios of tooth enamel from ten Early Neolithic individuals buried in a long cairn at Whitwell in central England were measured to determine where they sourced their childhood diet. Five individuals have low Sr concentrations (11–66 ppm) and high ^87^Sr/^86^Sr ratios (0.7164–0.7212). Three individuals have relatively low ^87^Sr/^86^Sr ratios (0.712–0.711) and Sr concentrations ranging between 54 and 109 ppm. Two individuals have strontium isotope values that bridge the gap between the isotope compositions of these two groups. The high ^87^Sr/^86^Sr values are rare in human enamel and exclude sources within the biosphere of central England. Oxygen isotope values are comparable to those found within human archaeological populations buried in temperate regions of Europe. The strontium isotope results should be interpreted in the context of other evidence for migration from northern France to Britain during the Early Neolithic.

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Author

Neil, Samantha; Evans, Jane; Montgomery, Janet; Scarre, Chris

Publisher

Sage Publications; Cambridge University Press; Cambridge University Press (CUP) (ISSN 1461-9571)

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)