Paestum dietary habits during the Imperial period: archaeological records and stable isotope measurement

Food for Rome: A stable isotope investigation of diet in the Imperial period (1st–3rd centuries AD)

0278-4165/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Inc. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2012.08.002 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (K. Killgrove) During the Empire, the population of Rome was composed mostly of lower-class free citizens and slaves. Viewed from historical records, the Roman diet included primarily olives, wine, and wheat, but poor and enslaved Romans may h...

Stable Isotope Analyses of Tooth Annuli Reveal Temporal Dietary Records: An Example Using Stellar Sea Lions

Identifying Aquatic Habits of Herbivorous Mammals through Stable Isotope Analysis

Large-bodied, semiaquatic herbivorous mammals have been a recurring component of most continental ecosystems throughout the Cenozoic. Identification of these species in the fossil record has largely been based on the morphological similarities with present-day hippopotamids, leading to the designation of this pairing of body type and ecological niche as the hippo ecomorph. These morphological c...

P 122: Dietary Habits and Multiple Sclerosis

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory and autoimmune disease.MS is characterized by blood brain barrier breakdown, inflammation, axonal injury, degeneration of the myelin sheath and etc. A significant association between inflammation and degeneration of neurons is observed in the brain. Also active MS lesions always associated with inflammation thus inflammation is a target for treatment o...

Stable isotope evidence for palaeodiets in southern Turkmenistan during Historical period and Iron Age

The subsistence patterns of Iron Age and Historical period humans from south-western Turkmenistan have been reconstructed using the carbon and nitrogen isotopic compositions of archaeological faunal and human bones. A qualitative comparison of the isotopic signatures points to a small proportion of ruminant meat and dairy in human diet for both periods. The ranges of proportions of dietary item...