Accretionary orogen and evolution of the Japanese Islands: Implications from a Sr-Nd isotopic study of the Phanerozoic granitoids from SW Japan

The application of biomolecular techniques to archaeological materials from the Balkans is providing valuable new information on the prehistory of the region. This is especially relevant for the study of the neolithisation process in SE Europe, which gradually affected the rest of the continent. Here, to answer questions regarding diet and subsistence practices in early farming societies, we combine organic residue analyses of archaeological pottery, taxonomic and isotopic study of domestic animal remains and biomolecular analyses of human dental calculus. The results from the analyses of the lipid residues from pottery suggest that milk was processed in ceramic vessels. Dairy products were shown to be part of the subsistence strategies of the earliest Neolithic communities in the region but were of varying importance in different areas of the Balkan. On the other hand, we did not confidently detect any milk proteins within the dental calculus. The molecular and isotopic identification of meat, dairy, plants and beeswax in the pottery lipids also provided insights into the diversity of diet in these early Neolithic communities. We also present the first compound-specific radiocarbon dates for the region, obtained directly on absorbed organic residues extracted from pottery, identified as dairy lipids.

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Matrilineal Genealogy of Hynobius (Caudata: Hynobiidae) anda Temporal Perspective on Varying Levels of Diversity among Lineages of Salamanders on the Japanese Islands

Asian Herpetological Research ◽

10.3724/sp.j.1245.2012.00288 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

pp. 288-302 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

ZHENG Yuchi ◽

PENG Rui ◽

W. MURPHY Robert ◽

KURO-O Masaki ◽

HU Lujun ◽

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Keyword(s):

Temporal Perspective ◽

Japanese Islands

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Nd and Sr isotopic study of crustal and mantle inclusions from the Sierra Nevada and implications for batholith petrogenesis

Geological Society of America Bulletin ◽

10.1130/0016-7606(1983)94<713:nasiso>2.0.co;2 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 94 (6) ◽

pp. 713 ◽

Cited By ~ 53

Author(s):

MICHAEL A. DOMENICK ◽

RONALD W. KISTLER ◽

F.C.W. DODGE ◽

MITSUNOBU TATSUMOTO

Keyword(s):

Sierra Nevada ◽

Isotopic Study

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A Petrologic and Noble Gas Isotopic Study of New Basaltic Eucrite Grove Mountains 13001 from Antarctica

Minerals ◽

10.3390/min11030279 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

pp. 279

Author(s):

Chuantong Zhang ◽

Bingkui Miao ◽

Huaiyu He ◽

Hongyi Chen ◽

P. M. Ranjith ◽

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Keyword(s):

Noble Gas ◽

Research Work ◽

Cosmic Ray ◽

Parent Body ◽

Chemical Compositions ◽

Isotopic Study ◽

Impact Processes ◽

Antarctic Research ◽

Formation And Evolution ◽

Grove Mountains

Howardite-Eucrite-Diogenite (HED) meteorite clan is a potential group of planetary materials which provides significant clues to understand the formation and evolution of the solar system. Grove Mountains (GRV) 13001 is a new member of HED meteorite, recovered from the Grove Mountains of Antarctica by the Chinese National Antarctic Research Expedition. This research work presents a comprehensive study of the petrology and mineralogy, chemical composition, noble gas isotopes, cosmic-ray exposure (CRE) age and nominal gas retention age for the meteorite GRV 13001. The output data indicate that GRV 13001 is a monomict basaltic eucrite with typical ophitic/subophitic texture, and it consists mainly of low-Ca pyroxene and plagioclase with normal eucritic chemical compositions. The noble gas based CRE age of the GRV 13001 is approximately 29.9 ± 3.0 Ma, which deviates from the major impact events or periods on the HED parent body. Additionally, the U,Th-4He and 40K-40Ar gas retention ages of this meteorite are ~2.5 to 4.0 Ga and ~3.6 to 4.1 Ga, respectively. Based on the noble gases isotopes and the corresponding ages, GRV 13001 may have experienced intense impact processes during brecciation, and weak thermal event after the ejection event at approximately 30 Ma.

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