The Coarse-Pounded Corn People

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin D. Gallivan ◽  
Victor D. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Isotope Analysis ◽  
Late Woodland ◽  
Skeletal Remains ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
Late Woodland Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Burial Grounds ◽  
Chickahominy River

Chapter 5 focuses on archaeological investigations along the Chickahominy River and a history of residential settlements, subsistence practices, and burial grounds during the Middle to Late Woodland transition. In the sixth century A.D., Native communities living along the Chickahominy River began to bury the deceased in communal burial grounds (ossuaries) located in the drainage’s swampy interior. During the Late Woodland period, new places were established along the Chickahominy with the construction of dispersed farmsteads, burial grounds, and a palisaded compound. In this history of placemaking we see evidence of the spatial practices whereby forager-fishers became the Chickahominy. As is apparent from colonial accounts of the Chickahominy, the “coarse-pounded corn people,” a horticultural economy was a part of this ethnogenetic process. Bioarchaeological study of skeletal remains from the Chickahominy, including stable isotope analysis, provides a basis for considering the history of maize-based horticulture in the region.

Dwelling in Tsenacomacoh

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin D. Gallivan ◽  
Victor D. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Representations ◽  
Historical Anthropology ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
Chickahominy River

Chapter 1 outlines an archaeological history of the Algonquian Chesapeake which examines the culturally specific ways that Virginia Algonquians dwelled within the estuary. The study is influenced by scholarly conversations about space, place, and landscape on the one hand and, on the other, by contemporary Native communities’ demands for research which challenges triumphalist colonial narratives hinging on Native defeat, fragmentation, and abandonment. Primary evidence comes from a reassessment of colonial-era documents and from three archaeological studies, the Werowocomoco Project, the Chickahominy River Survey, and excavations at the Powhatan town of Kiskiak. Previous research in the region, summarized in this chapter, sets the stage for a deep historical anthropology of landscape that crosses the historic / precolonial divide. Chapter 1 closes by summarizing the remainder of the book, organized around sociologist Henri Lefebvre’s model of space that includes three axes: spatial representations, spatial practices, and the spatial imaginary.

scholarly journals Factors Influencing the Radiocarbon Dating of Human Skeletal Remains from the Dnieper River System: Archaeological and Stable Isotope Evidence of Diet from the Epipaleolithic to Eneolithic Periods

Radiocarbon ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 741-753 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm Lillie ◽  
Rowena Henderson ◽  
Chelsea Budd ◽  
Inna Potekhina
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Isotope Analysis ◽  
Skeletal Remains ◽  
Resource Exploitation ◽  
Human Skeletal Remains ◽  
Freshwater Resource ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Fish Samples

AbstractRecent research has identified the existence of a freshwater reservoir effect influencing the radiocarbon dating of human skeletal remains from the Dnieper region of Ukraine (Lillie et al. 2009). The current study outlines the evidence for freshwater resource exploitation throughout the period ~10,200–3700 cal BC, and presents the available evidence for the existence of dietary offsets in the 14C dates obtained. We have obtained human skeletal material from 54 Epipaleolithic to Mesolithic period individuals and 267 Neolithic to Eneolithic individuals, from 13 cemeteries, since our research in Ukraine began in 1992. Here, we present the initial results of stable isotope analysis of Eneolithic individuals from the Igren VIII cemetery alongside the Epipaleolithic to Eneolithic samples that have previously been analyzed. When contrasted against the evidence from the prehistoric fauna and fish remains studied, and modern fish species from the Dnieper region, we continue to see variability in diets at the population level, both internally and across cemeteries. We also observed temporal variability in human diets across these chronological periods. The fish samples (both archaeological and modern) show a wide range of isotope ratios for both δ13C and δ15N, which could prove significant when interpreting the dietary sources being exploited. This information directly informs the 14C dating program as an inherent degree of complexity is introduced into the dating of individuals whose diets combine freshwater and terrestrial sources in differing quantities and at differing temporal and/or spatial scales (e.g. Bronk Ramsey et al. 2014).

scholarly journals Quantifying Inter-Laboratory Variability in Stable Isotope Analysis of Ancient Skeletal Remains

PLoS ONE ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. e102844 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Pestle ◽  
Brooke E. Crowley ◽  
Matthew T. Weirauch
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Stable Isotope Analysis ◽  
Isotope Analysis ◽  
Skeletal Remains

scholarly journals Stable C and N isotope analysis of human dental remains retrieved from an ancient well at Ajnala (Punjab, India): Assessment of Dietary status and geographic affiliations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.S. SEHRAWAT ◽  
Deeksha Sankhyan ◽  
Som Dutt ◽  
Niraj Rai
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Stable Isotope Analysis ◽  
Isotope Analysis ◽  
Geographic Origin ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Skeletal Remains ◽  
Indian States ◽  
Study Results ◽  
C And N ◽  
Historical Accounts

Abstract Stable isotope analysis of biogenic tissues like tooth and bone has become a widely recognized and increasingly important method for provenance of human remains, particularly in bio-archaeological and forensic investigations. Establishing the dietary status and identity of unknown human skeletal remains retrieved from forensic anthropological contexts is a challenging task. Thousands of unknown human osseous remains along with the personalized contextual items, reportedly belonging to 282 Indian soldiers killed in 1857, were excavated non-scientifically from an abandoned well at Ajnala (Amritsar, India). In present study, the isotopic concentrations of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) were estimated from the dentine collagen extracted from 21 first molars to provide information about the geographic affinity and dietary status of the individuals killed in Ajnala. As diagenesis affects bone more severely than enamel or dentine due to increased porosity of the former, so teeth were preferred to bones for stable isotope analysis in present study. The literature supported C: N range of 2.8-3.6 was considered as cut-off for the well-preserved collagen and the samples with values outside this range were considered to be altered or contaminated with non-collagenous materials. The interpretation of the obtained isotope values from Ajnala teeth samples indicated the consumption of C3/C4 mixed diet (though some samples showing marine diet) by the victims which supported the previous observations about the dietary status of Ajnala victims estimated from prevalence of various dental pathologies. Though C and N isotopes are generally not the best indicators of geographic origin, they can be used to for the purpose only if they show different dietary inputs of C3 and C4 plants. Present study results provided scientific confirmation to the written historical accounts that Ajnala skeletal remains belonged to the individuals belonging to the Indian states of Awadh (north-eastern Uttar Pradesh), Bihar and Bengal and some norteastern states.

scholarly journals Sequential stable isotope analysis reveals differences in dietary history of three sympatric equid species in the Mongolian Gobi

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 1110-1119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Burnik Šturm ◽  
Oyunsaikhan Ganbaatar ◽  
Christian C. Voigt ◽  
Petra Kaczensky
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Stable Isotope Analysis ◽  
Isotope Analysis ◽  
Dietary History ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Show Me Your Rump Hair and I Will Tell You What You Ate – The Dietary History of Muskoxen (Ovibos moschatus) Revealed by Sequential Stable Isotope Analysis of Guard Hairs

PLoS ONE ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. e0152874 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesper Bruun Mosbacher ◽  
Anders Michelsen ◽  
Mikkel Stelvig ◽  
Ditte Katrine Hendrichsen ◽  
Niels Martin Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Stable Isotope Analysis ◽  
Isotope Analysis ◽  
Ovibos Moschatus ◽  
Dietary History ◽  
History Of

Geochemical and stable isotope patterns of calcite cementation in the Upper Cretaceous Chalk, Uk: Direct evidence from calcite-filled vugs in brachiopods

2012 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiufang Hu ◽  
Christopher Jeans ◽  
Tony Dickson
Keyword(s):  
Organic Matter ◽  
Stable Isotope ◽  
Trace Element ◽  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Isotope Analysis ◽  
History Of Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Calcite Cementation ◽  
The Uk

ABSTRACT Hu, X-F, Jeans, C.V. and Dickson, J.A.D. 2012. Geochemical and stable isotope patterns of calcite cementation in the Upper Cretaceous Chalk, UK: Direct evidence from calcite-filled vugs in brachiopods. Acta GeologicaPolonica, 62 (2), 143-172. Warszawa. The history of research into the cementation of the Upper Cretaceous Chalk of the UK is reviewed. Calcitefilled vugs within the shell cavities of terebratulid brachiopods from the Cenomanian Chalk of eastern England have been investigated by cathodoluminesence imaging, staining, electron microprobe and stable isotope analysis. This has provided the first detailed analysis of the geochemistry of the Chalk’s cement. Two cement series, suboxic and anoxic, are recognized. Both start with a Mg-rich calcite with positive δ 13 C values considered to have been precipitated under oxic conditions influenced by aerobic ammonification. The suboxic series is characterized by positive δ 13 C values that became increasingly so as cementation progressed, reaching values of 3.5‰. Manganese is the dominant trace element in the earlier cement, iron in the later cement. Mnand Fe-reducing microbes influenced cement precipitation and the trace element and δ 13 C patterns. The anoxic series is characterized by δ 13 C values that became increasingly negative as cementation progressed, reaching values of -6.5‰. Trace elements are dominated by iron and manganese. Sulphate-reducing microbes influenced cement precipitation and the trace element and δ 13 C patterns. Both cement series are related closely to lithofacies and early lithification pre-dating the regional hardening of the Chalk. The suboxic series occurs in chalk which was continuously deposited and contained hematite pigment and limited organic matter. The anoxic series was associated with slow to nil deposition and hardground development in chalks that originally contained hematite pigment but no longer do so, and an enhanced supply of organic matter.

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