Publication Date:
1983-06-24
Description:
The delta 15N values of bone collagen from Eskimos and from Northwest Coast Indians dependent on salmon fishing are about 10 per mil more positive than those from agriculturalists in historic times. Among prehistoric humans, two groups dependent on marine food sources show bone collagen delta 15N values that are 4 to 6 per mil more positive than those from two agricultural groups. The nitrogen isotope ratios of bone collagen from prehistoric inhabitants of the Bahamas are anomalously low for reasons that relate to the biogeochemical cycle of nitrogen in coral reefs.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schoeninger, M J -- DeNiro, M J -- Tauber, H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1983 Jun 24;220(4604):1381-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6344217" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Bone and Bones/*analysis
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Collagen/*analysis
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*Diet
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History, Ancient
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Humans
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Indians, North American/history
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Indians, South American/history
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Inuits/history
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*Nitrogen Isotopes
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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