Agricultural lime disturbs natural strontium isotope variations: Implications for provenance and migration studies
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Agricultural liming severely affects the use of strontium isotopes in prehistoric provenance and migration studies.
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Recent research suggests that fertilization with lime in modern agriculture affects interpretation of strontium isotopes.
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- Authors
- Thomsen, E., & Andreasen, R.
- Affiliations
- Aarhus University (DK)
- Corresponding author
- Thomsen, Erik
- Venue
- Science Advances
- Published
- 2019-03
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- eaav8083-eaav8083
- ISSN
- 2375-2548 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6415960
- OpenAlex
- W2922114083
- Cited by
- 183
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- FWCI
- 14.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
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- Licence
- cc-by-nc
- Locations
- Science Advances (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Torben og Alice Frimodts Fond (28529)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Forensic and Genetic Research
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Keywords
- strontium isotope analysis, agricultural lime, isotope fractionation, human migration, provenance, Bronze Age, ancient DNA, calcareous soils
- MeSH terms
- Agriculture, Archaeology, Denmark, Female, Fertilizers, Humans, Oxides, Soil, Strontium Isotopes, Calcium Compounds, History, Ancient, Radiometric Dating, Groundwater, Human Migration
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