Morphological and biomolecular analyses of bones and teeth. Unveiling past diet, health, and environmental parameters, 2012, 222 p., 102 ill. -

The papers deal with animal bones from Islamic ar-Raqqa/ar-Rafiqa, Syria [Becker], four Imperial 12th-century graves from Königslutter, Lower Saxony [Burkhardt, Grupe], tissue remains of Duke Henry the Proud of Bavaria from this burial place [Staskiewicz], a reconstruction of diet in High Medieval and Early Modern Brandenburg [Jungklaus], the use of 18O-analysis for identifying differences in altitude of habitat of alpine populations [McGlynn], reconstructing diet and identifying malnutrition and starvation by isotopic analysis of hair [Neuberger, Harbeck, Grupe], bone collagen nitrogen-isotope ratios in bones of healthy and sick Medieval children [Olsen, von Heyking, McGlynn, Grupe, White, Longstaffe], the Minoan and Mycenaean fauna of Miletus, Turkey [Peters] as well as strontium and oxygen isotope signatures of human bones from the Early Medieval cemetery at Wenigumstadt, Bavaria, that indicate some 30% immigrants [Vohberger]. Papers in English and German.