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Unanswered questions in the evolution of biomineralisation / Elizabeth M. Harper -- Part I. Cremations : anthropology, mineralogy, radiocarbon dating. Complexities of the ancient mortuary rite of cremation : an osteoarchaeological conundrum / Jacqueline I. McKinley ; Bones, rocks, and flames : mineralogy and petrology of slags and cremated bones from ritual immolation sites in Tyrol / Peter Tropper ; Radiocarbon dating of cremated bones : an overview / Mark Van Strydonck ; Mineralogic characterisation of archaeological bone / Wolfgang W. Schmahl, Balazs Kocsis, Anita Toncala, and Gisela Grupe -- Part II. Geological aspects of isotopic landscapes. Assessing the "local" ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ratio for humans / James H. Burton and Rachel Hahn ; Determination of geo-dependent bioavailable ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr isotopic ratios for archaeological sites from the Inn Valley (Austria) : a model calculation / Frank Söllner, Anita Toncala, Stefan Hölzl, and Gisela Grupe ; Provenancing bronze : exclusion, inclusion, uniqueness, and Occam's razor / Igor M. Villa -- Part III. Ecological aspects of isotopic landscapes. Linking oxygen isotopes of animal-bone phosphate with altimetry : results from archaeological finds from a transect in the Alps / Christoph Mayr, Gisela Grupe, Anita Toncala, and Christina M. Lihl ; Oxygen and hydrogen stable isotopes in earth's hydrologic cycle / Robert van Geldern and Johannes A.C. Barth ; Toward an integrated isotope zooarchaeology / Cheryl A. Makarewicz -- Part IV. Processing multi-isotope signatures. Assigning elephant ivory with stable isotopes / Stefan Ziegler, Bruno Streit, and Dorrit E. Jacob ; Towards predicting places of origin from isotopic fingerprints : a case study on the mobility of people in the Central European Alps / Markus Mauder, Eirini Ntoutsi, Peer Kröger, and Hans-Peter Kriegel. |
