Tools
ToolsBrown, A. and Thomas, T., 2015. The First New Zealanders? An Alternative Interpretation of Stable Isotope Data from Wairau Bar, New Zealand. PLoS One, 10 (10), e0135214.
Full text available as:
|
PDF
Brown and Thomas.PDF - Published Version Available under License Creative Commons Attribution. 2MB | |
|
Copyright to original material in this document is with the original owner(s). Access to this content through BURO is granted on condition that you use it only for research, scholarly or other non-commercial purposes. If you wish to use it for any other purposes, you must contact BU via BURO@bournemouth.ac.uk. Any third party copyright material in this document remains the property of its respective owner(s). BU grants no licence for further use of that third party material. |
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0135214
Abstract
PLOS ONE Volume 8 includes an article “The First New Zealanders: Patterns of Diet and Mobility Revealed through Isotope Analysis”. The paper proposes that burial groups within the settlement phase site of Wairau Bar differ in terms of dietary stable isotopes and 87Sr/86Sr. The authors argue this difference is probably due to one group being a founding population while the other burials are later. Here we review the work of Kinaston et al. and present an alternative analysis and interpretation of the isotopic data. Treating the isotope data independently from cultural and biological factors we find that sex best explains dietary variation. Our reassessment of 87Sr/86Sr confirms the authors original finding of high mobility of early New Zealanders but suggests a larger range of individuals should be considered ‘non-local’ on current evidence.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Group: | Faculty of Science & Technology |
| ID Code: | 28783 |
| Deposited By: | Symplectic RT2 |
| Deposited On: | 12 Apr 2017 14:03 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2022 14:04 |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year
| Repository Staff Only - |