'Impious Easterners': Can Oxygen and Strontium Isotopes Serve as Indicators of Provenance in Early Medieval European Cemetery Populations?
'Impious Easterners': Can Oxygen and Strontium Isotopes Serve as Indicators of Provenance in Early Medieval European Cemetery Populations?
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10.1179/1461957112y.0000000001
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发表时间：
2012-04-01
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1.5
通讯作者：
Montgomery, Janet
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作者：
Brettell, Rhea;Evans, Jane;Montgomery, Janet
关于参与撒克逊探险的人的起源：公元5世纪日耳曼人到达不列颠，人们仍然存在相当大的争论。从肯特郡林格勒米尔公墓(n=7)和三个欧洲大陆遗址(n=17)的考古牙齿样本中获得的氧和锶同位素比率被用来研究这个问题。结果表明，单靠锶不能区分来自英格兰东南部和欧洲西北部的人。尽管Ringlemere的SR-87/SR-86值在当地生物圈参数范围内，并表明存在一个时空上相关的类群，但增量O-18的值与英格兰东部或德国北部平原的起源不一致。欧洲站点的结果否定了过去的气候变化作为一种解释。文化介入的行为有可能模糊了地理关系。需要进一步的工作来确定假定的欧洲本土的水源和人类三角洲O-18值。
Considerable debate persists concerning the origins of those involved in the adventus Saxonum: the arrival of Germanic peoples in Britain during the fifth century AD. This question was investigated using oxygen and strontium isotope ratios obtained from archaeological dental samples from individuals in the 'Migration Period' cemetery, Ringlemere, Kent (n = 7) and three continental European sites (n = 17). Results demonstrated that strontium alone is unable to distinguish between individuals from south-east England and north-west Europe. Although Sr-87/Sr-86 values from Ringlemere fell within local biosphere parameters and suggest a spatially and temporally related group, delta O-18 values were inconsistent with origins in eastern England or on the North German plain. Results from the European sites negate past climate change as an explanation. It is possible that culturally mediated behaviour has obscured geographical relationships. Further work to characterize water sources and human delta O-18 values in the putative European homelands is required.