Provenancing Humans - Strontium and Oxygen Isotopes

The study of human remains has long been the most direct method of understanding the detailed lives of our ancestors as individuals. The methods of forensic science and palaeopathology have been applied for many years to determine age, sex, stature, nutritional status and cause of death, and to detect evidence of some diseases. Increasingly, DNA is being used to determine kinship. It is, however, no exaggeration to say that entire new vistas have been 

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