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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...

This dataset consists of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios of bulk bone collagen obtained from humans and fauna of the Hamanaka 2 site, Hokkaido, Japan.

This dataset presents enamel strontium (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr), oxygen (δ¹⁸O), and carbon (δ¹³C) isotope data, together with bone and dentine collagen carbon (δ¹³C) and nitrogen (δ¹⁵N) isotope values, from Neolithic cattle, sheep/goat, and domesticated or wild pigs recovered from Swifterbant in the Netherlands....

This dataset accompanies the publication that applies a bioarchaeological framework to explore how mobility and ancestry shaped the social composition of the Roman military community Praetorium Agrippinae (Valkenburg, the Netherlands) along the Lower Rhine Limes. It comprises data from 77 individual...

The dataset presents 87Sr/86Sr, δ¹⁸O, and δ¹³C values measured on dental enamel from eight human individuals recovered from five archaeological sites in the Netherlands, comprising a total of 23 isotopic datapoints. The individuals derive from securely dated archaeological contexts spanning the peri...

This dataset includes 87Sr/86Sr measurements for 51 plant samples from 17 sampling sites in western Lithuania. Grass, shrub, and tree samples are presented from each sampling site to characterise bioavailable strontium. Overall, the 87Sr/86Sr for this dataset ranges between 0.7092 and 0.7177.

The dataset presents 87Sr/86Sr and [Sr] data for 25 human samples (cremations) recovered at the Ėgliškiai cemetery in western Lithuania. The site belongs to the Western Baltic Barrow culture and dates to the Late Bronze–Pre-Roman Iron Age (c. 800–50 BC).

Stable isotope collagen data (δ¹³C, δ¹⁵N) are presented for human and faunal samples from three major Roman sites in Germania Inferior: Xanten (Colonia Ulpia Traiana, Germany), Tongeren (Atuatuca Tungrorum, Belgium), and Valkenburg-Marktveld (Praetorium Agrippinae, the Netherlands). Isotopic results...

Understanding prey species spatial behaviour is key to unravelling contemporary hunter-gatherer subsistence and movement patterns. Here, we use sulfur (δ34S), carbon (δ 13C) and nitrogen (δ 15N) isotope compositions of bone collagen extracted from Rangifer, Equus, Bovinae, Capreolus, and Cervus (n =...

The dataset presents 87Sr/86Sr and [Sr] data for 102 human samples from eight Bronze Age sites in the Upper Seine Valley (France), including cremated human bones dated between 2300 and 300 BCE. This dataset contributes to a better understanding of land management and mobility patterns in the Bronze ...

This dataset includes 96 strontium isotope (⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr) analyses of modern plants collected from 32 sampling locations in the Upper Seine Valley, near the Seine–Yonne confluence. Grass, shrub, and tree samples were collected at each site to characterise local bioavailable strontium. The ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr rat...