Experimental archaeology

Ambrose, S.H. and Norr, L. 1993 Experimental evidence for the relationship of the carbon isotope ratios ofwhole diet and dietary protein to those ofbone collagen and carbonate. In Lambert, J.B. and Grupe, G., eds.. Prehistoric Human Bone Archaeology at the Molecular Level. Berlin, Springer-Verlag 1-37. 

To enable comparison to this experimental approach, archaeological human bones of various ages and soil properties (Table 9.1) from the Anthropological Collection in Munich were analyzed. All German skeletal series come from humic soil with, neutral to slightly basic pH. The samples from Tinkey, Syria, coastal Pern and Egypt have been buried in dry, sandy soils. Soil samples from most of the excavation sites were available and bone sample... 

The detailed results of the analyses of the excavated human bones and soil samples from the respective archaeological sites are the subject of a forthcoming paper (Balzer et al. 1997, Turban-Just, in prep.). Therefore, only the major topics relating to the experimental approach shall be considered here. 

Since isotopic alteration has been shown for experimentally degraded bone, the same should hold for archaeological human bones that have amino... 

Merkel, J. F. (1990), Experimental reconstruction of Bronze Age copper smelting based on archaeological evidence from Timna, in Rothenberg, B. (ed.), The Ancient Metallurgy of Copper, International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, London, pp. 78-122. 

Wilson, L. and A. M. Pollard (2002), Here today, gone tomorrow Integrated experimentation and geochemical modeling in studies of archaeological diagenetic change, Acc. Chem. Research 35(8), 644-651. 

Evershed R.P., Experimental approaches to the interpretation of absorbed organic residues in archaeological ceramics, World Archaeology, 2008, 40, 26 47. 

Fatty Acids in Archaeological Skeletal and Soft Tissue Remains and Experimental Animals... 

Amino Acids in Archaeological Bones and Those of Experimental Animals... 

Figure 9.8 Trace element profile along a single hair using LA-ICP-MS. The horizontal axis refers to the tracking time of the laser along the hair, which equates to distance, (a) shows lead along individual hairs from different depositional environments A is a modern sample, B is an experimentally buried modern sample, C is from a surface-exposed (8 months) forensic case, and D is an archaeological sample (died 1867). (b) shows arsenic from three of these same samples. There is clearly postdepositional uptake of both elements in the archaeological samples, and in these particular examples little evidence of lateral variation.

Christensen, M., Calligaro, T., Consigny, S., et al. (1998). Insight into the usewear mechanism of archaeological flints by implantation of a marker ion and PIXE analysis of experimental tools. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 136 869-874. 

Coles, J. M. (1979). Experimental Archaeology. London, Academic Press. 

Demortier, G. (1997). Accelerator-based analysis of gold jewelry items and experimental archaeology. Annali Di Chimica 87 103-112. 

Stott, A. W., Evershed, R. P., Jim, S., et al. (1999). Cholesterol as a new source of palaeodietary information experimental approaches and archaeological applications. Journal of Archaeological Science 26 705-716. 

Evershed RP, Bethell PH, Reynolds PJ, Welch NJ, 5P-Stigmastanol and related 5 3-stanols as bio markers of manuring Analysis of modern experimental material and assessment of the archaeological potenxi A, J Archaeological Science 24 485-495, 1997. 

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