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The Great Irish Famine: Identifying Starvation in the Tissues of Victims Using Stable Isotope Analysis of Bone and Incremental Dentine Collagen

The major components of human diet both past and present may be estimated by measuring the carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios (δ(13)C and δ(15)N) of the collagenous proteins in bone and tooth dentine. However, the results from these two tissues differ substantially: bone collagen records a multi-yea...

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Autores principales: Beaumont, Julia, Montgomery, Janet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4980051/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27508412
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0160065