Mike Parker Pearson on Stonehenge and British Prehistory
Tides of History
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Using Multi Isotope Approaches in Archaeology
Sestrontium, tells you about the kinds of geology that they were living on when the tooth enamel was forming. Oxygen also tells us more about the degree of continentality or maritime location. And we look at sulphur in the bone, which has formed basically in the last ten years of life,. to see where people might have been living in relation to distance to the sea. The most famous of these is called the amesbury archer, who was buried across the river, just three miles from stone. He has oxygen values which put him most likely in the area of the alpine foothills.
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