A Bayesian model sensitivity study of non-static diet-collagen isotope fractionations factors used to assess breastfeeding and weaning practices among fisher-gatherers populations, western Cuba
Author(s): Bill Buhay; Yadira Chinique de Armas; Mirjana Roksandic; Roberto Rodriguez Suarez
Year: 2017
Summary
Reconstructing paleo-diets from bone-collagen isotope values (carbon and nitrogen) requires proper knowledge of diet-collagen isotopic fractionations (∆d13Cdiet-col, ∆d15Ndiet-col). While these isotopic fractionations vary considerably among previous human paleo-diet reconstructions, some more recent studies have successfully employed "non-static" dietary offsets. New research suggests that non-static diet-collagen isotope fractionations is best when attempting to reconstruct paleo-diets of cultures consuming varied diets, particularly when used in association with a variety of new Bayesian multi-source stable isotope-mixing models now available. This particular study involves a sensitivity study of some non-static diet-collagen isotope fractionations employed in three Bayesian multi-source stable isotope-mixing models to assess breastfeeding and weaning practices among fisher-gatherer populations from Western Cuba.
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A Bayesian model sensitivity study of non-static diet-collagen isotope fractionations factors used to assess breastfeeding and weaning practices among fisher-gatherers populations, western Cuba. Bill Buhay, Yadira Chinique de Armas, Mirjana Roksandic, Roberto Rodriguez Suarez. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. 2017 ( tDAR id: 431818)
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