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Tango01 | 04 Jun 2014 10:24 p.m. PST |
using stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis. "Archaeologists have applied a number of methods to investigate diet: trace element analysis, analysis of osteological pathological conditions, midden analysis and faunal analysis are commonly used. One of the most common methods is stable isotope analysis. Stable isotopic analysis of bone directly measures long-term diet of past populations, which can provide valuable information and context concerning past life-ways (Katzenberg 2008). A newer area of investigation using stable isotopic analysis is the investigation of nutritional stress (Fuller et al. 2005, Hatch et al. 2006, Mekota et al. 2006). This is of particular relevance in the study of soldiers during times of war when nutritional resources may be scarce. "A skeletal series from a battlefield offers the opportunity to study the effects of field conditions and physical stress
in a specially selected subset of the general population in which age, sex, and other physical characteristics are relatively consistent as a result of induction standards" (Owsley 1997:8). Osteological investigations from historic military sites are a recent trend in bioarchaeology (Sledzik and Sandberg 2002). Stable isotope analysis of these samples is almost non-existent. In this study, I applied stable isotope analysis to a group of soldiers that perished in the retreat from Moscow during the Russian Campaign of the Napoleonic Wars in 1812 for the purpose of interpreting diet and nutritional stress in this sample
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