Testing Stable Isotopes of Human Dental Calculus as a Nondestructive Proxy for Paleodiet

• Main Author: Simon Poulson
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2017
• Subjects: dental calculus; diet; stable isotopes; carbon; nitrogen; Arctic; Greenland; Iceland
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A29P2W73Z

The primary biomaterial used for stable isotope analysis to study diet in prehistoric and protohistoric populations is bone collagen, and requires destructive analysis and hence may dissuade museum curators from allowing access to this material. This study has investigated the use of dental calculus...