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This substantial dataset brings together human and faunal isotope data generated over the past 25 years through research projects investigating enslaved individuals associated with colonial Cape Town, including the Cobern Street, Marina Residence, and Castle of Good Hope projects, as well as individ...

This dataset compiles published stable and radiogenic isotope data relating primarily to human populations of early modern Europe, together with associated faunal and environmental reference data. It draws on 41 bibliographic resources and covers 158 locations in 17 countries, representing 2,946 mat...

This dataset accompanies Fricke et al. (2021) and Kootker & Laffoon (2022), which present a multi-isotope study of two individuals from Saba: a female and her child. It contains both the biogenic isotope data used to reconstruct their life histories and data generated as part of a pilot study invest...

This dataset comprises Sr-O-C-N isotope data from 139 unique modern human individuals from the Netherlands, compiled from four studies published between 2015 and 2024 (see Ammer et al., 2024) and adds valuable data to previously submitted modern human data from Plomp et al. (2019). Together, these...

This dataset contains δ13C, δ15N and 87Sr/86Sr measurements obtained during the multi-isotope study of the Hallstatt period cemetery in Modřice, Czech Republic. It includes isotopic data for 24 inhumations and 24 cremations, supported by 30 samples of archaeological fauna (20 for C, N; 10 for Sr), w...

Both the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age were periods of significant cultural change throughout Europe. In the northern Scheldt Basin, modern-day Belgium, this manifested through the widespread adoption of the so-called Urnfield Culture and cremation practices. As populations began to experie...

This dataset contains newly published enamel 87Sr/86Sr, [Sr] (ppm), and δ18O values from 3 individuals, and dentine δ13C/δ15N/δ34S and 14C from 1 individual from the Croftgowan early medieval cemetery, Scotland. These data relate to the paper ‘Fragments of lives: new biomolecular insights into Croft...

This dataset presents 192 87Sr/86Sr measurements from modern plant samples collected from 91 sampling sites across northern Portugal (north of 39.1o). New 87Sr/86Sr measurements from triple plant samples (grass, shrub and tree) from 51 sampling sites are presented alongside modern plant 87Sr/86Sr fr...

This dataset presents 87Sr/86Sr, δ88Sr and [Sr] measurements from cremated diaphyseal fragments (n = 10) and otic capsules (n = 5) from ten cremated bone deposits at the Roman site of Tongobriga (Marco de Canaveses, Portugal). The cremated bone samples are from the High Empire necropolis, dated to t...

An initial collection of stable isotope data from various published articles of human and animal remains from the Southern Illinois region, chiefly from the Cahokia Mounds, Kincaid Mounds, and the Broglio Site completed under the direction of Dr. Chris Stantis as part of the ArchSci Lab of Southern ...

This is the dataset used for the journal article "Multi-proxy bioarchaeological analyses reveal subsistence shift in Bronze Age Central Europe" submitted by Depaermentier et al. (2026) to Science Advances. There is a total of 192 individuals from Poland dated from the Late Eneolithic to the Early Ir...

During the 14th century, inhabitants of Kutná Hora, an important urban centre in the Kingdom of Bohemia, were exposed to repeated mortality crises. This study uses stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes to examine the relationship between diet, the famine of 1318, and plague outbreaks after 1346. A tot...

This dataset contains 87Sr/86Sr and [Sr] (ppm) data for 55 Iron Age and Roman individuals from the site of Ursel-Rozestraat. These data relate to the paper 'Mobility patterns, dietary shifts and chronology: strontium and radiocarbon insights from calcined bones at Ursel-Rozestraat (prov. of East-Fla...

The dataset introduces a valuable perspective on strontium (87Sr/86Sr) for the study of the Late Roman and Migration Period (300-600 CE) in Germany, complementing existing research that has predominantly focused on carbon and nitrogen isotope systems. By incorporating strontium isotopes and elementa...

This dataset documents the isotopic variability of δ¹³C and δ¹⁵N values measured on human and faunal bone collagen from archaeological contexts associated with the sites of Aradetis Orgora and Doghlauri cemetery in the Shida Kartli region of Georgia. The assemblage includes faunal remains (n = 64) a...