DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.07.042
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-85052332712
论文题名: What is our toolbox of analytical chemistry for exploring ancient hominin diets in the absence of organic preservation?
作者: Jaouen K.
刊名: Quaternary Science Reviews
ISSN: 2773791
出版年: 2018
卷: 197 起始页码: 307
结束页码: 318
语种: 英语
Scopus关键词: Bone
; Carbon
; Collagen
; Enamels
; Isotopes
; Trace elements
; Carbon isotopes
; Chemical techniques
; Dental enamels
; Element ratios
; Isotope systems
; Minor elements
; Organic preservation
; Trophic level
; Chemical analysis
; analytical method
; carbon isotope
; chemical method
; collagen
; construction
; diet
; enamel
; hominid
; isotopic analysis
; nitrogen isotope
; Paleolithic
; Pleistocene
; preservation
; trace element
英文摘要: This short review aims at drawing up an inventory of the existing chemical techniques that can help reconstruct past hominin diets in the absence of organic preservations (such as collagen). Preservation issues necessitate the preferential use of dental enamel over bones for bioapatite trace and minor element analyses. The trace element ratios in dental enamel-as opposed to bones-can distinguish browser, grazer and marine diets, but their use as a trophic level indicator is irrelevant. So far, carbon isotopes have been the most fruitful tracer to reconstruct Lower Paleolithic hominin diets and ecology. The application of new isotope systems opens up very promising perspectives for the characterization of Pleistocene hominin diets as they generally reveal trophic level information. The combination of these promising tracers with carbon isotopes in dental enamel could therefore provide similar information to the isotopes (C and N) usually analyzed in collagen, which brought useful insights into the diets of Late Neandertals and Upper Paleolithic modern humans. However, before investigating nontraditional isotope ratios in precious hominin samples, more work is needed to test their response to various dietary types and environments as well as their resistance to diagenesis. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/112068
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作者单位: Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz, 6, Leipzig, 04103, Germany
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Jaouen K.. What is our toolbox of analytical chemistry for exploring ancient hominin diets in the absence of organic preservation?[J]. Quaternary Science Reviews,2018-01-01,197