TL;DR: The stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios of collagen of seven bones from each of three rabbits raised on a monotonous diet, and of two bones from eight female and seven male mink raised on another non-convex diet, were determined in this article.

TL;DR: Analyses of sterols and biological studies have shown that a Roman defensive ditch was also a cesspit as mentioned in this paper, where plant debris includes wheat fragments dispersed from defecated bread or other farinaceous food.

TL;DR: In this paper, sealed middle stone age and later stone age occurrences are linked to a semiarid streamway during the early Upper Pleistocene, and a major humid interval followed, when a large lake was ponded in the Dobe Valley.

TL;DR: In this article, the distorting effects of variable topography have crucial importance in understanding the tactical reasons for using particular sites in regional exploitation strategies and demonstrate a simple technique for calculating this distortion.

TL;DR: There is an increase in frequency of carious lesions which is more marked in the females, thus indicating a relatively greater impact of the dietary shift on them than on the males, most likely due to subsistence role differences between the sexes.

TL;DR: A study of the distribution of lead in a tooth from the Romano-British site at Cirencester by fast particle activation analysis indicated that virtually all the lead was on the external surface indicating post-mortem absorption as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: A simple scheme for soil sampling and subsequent analysis for total soil phosphorus using perchloric acid digestion is described and its application illustrated by samples from the native farmstead of the Roman period at Cefn Graeanog in North Wales.

TL;DR: In this paper, the magnetic properties of obsidians are examined for their potential in sourcing obsidian artifacts, and three simple magnetic parameters are found to be effective discriminants of many Mediterranean, Central European and near Eastern sources.

TL;DR: In this article, the growth line analysis was used to examine seasonal growth patterns in modern specimens of the edible cockle, Cerastoderma edule L. The modern control work provided a basis for the interpretation of seasonal collection in archaeological cockles, and is applied to shells from the Mesolithic site of Morton, Fife.

TL;DR: In this paper, soil chemical analysis of Palaeo-Indians to historic sequence in one Maine locale is analyzed for chemical enrichment, and excavation of four discrete sites up to 4000 m 2, samples are collected in grid patterns and analyzed for pH, Mg, P and Ca.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided of the reliability of the Miles method of ageing archaeological populations on the basis of occlusal wear and the sources of error inherent in the Miles system of analysis.

TL;DR: Partridge's Sterkfontein Formation is a composite stratotype, comprising one surface exposure and another underground, at mid-to upper levels in the system as discussed by the authors, and it can be subdivided into a northern sector, comprising small, bedding-controlled passageways, and a southern one with large galleries controlled by subvertical fracture zones and partly filled with two generations of external, detrital sediment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the mechanical properties of dry bone and antler are compared and the superiority of antler, in the form of greater toughness, is demonstrated using static three-point bending tests.

TL;DR: The insects recovered by sampling a present day disused cesspit located in south Shropshire are compared with similar assemblages from two sites in 16th century Worcester, and with faunas from a modern compost heap and garden soil.

TL;DR: In this article, a pattern recognition approach to spatial analysis is applied to artifact distributions from the Magdalenian site of Pincevent, Section 36, Section 6, Section 7.

TL;DR: Alzira is situated in a cut-off meander loop of the Rio Jucar, and the Islamic city wall was built during the second quarter of the 11th century AD, at a time when the river had a low-amplitude and low-energy flood regime as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The skeleton of a Roman cat was found in the stomach and in the dung balls of a large domestic cat at Quseir el-Qadim in the Red Sea as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In the early 1900s shells of a large freshwater mussel, Margaritifera auricularia (Spengler), were discovered in calcreted gravel dredged from the channel of the Thames at several sites between Mortlake and Battersea in west London as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Foundation deposits underneath the walls of two temples near Semna, Sudan (c. 1500-1480 BC), included dried plant material, known as funeral gifts in Egyptian tombs, of particular interest.

TL;DR: Bones of an Upper Pleistocene Camelus have been found in the northwestern Negev, they are of particular interest because they are larger than those of all the Old World camel species since the Plio-Pleistocene, and they are very much larger than the few fossil camels already known from the Middle East.

TL;DR: Measurements of twelve new samples of Danish Bronze Age wool showed them to be hairy medium fleeces, indicating a more primitive fleece than those of the Soay sheep.

TL;DR: A mature/elderly female skeleton from the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Eccles, Kent, is described and lesions are considered to be due to metastatic carcinoma, possibly from a primary carcinoma of the breast.