Bioarch
- Created by: AliceDobinson
- Created on: 29-03-22 11:43
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2. in the Lee-Thorpe 2008 report on the consumption of maize in North America why could the contribution of maize not be detected in the diet with carbon isotopes?
- because the collagen was to degraded to give meaningful results
- Authors tested collagen which only tracks the protein contribution of your diet. You would have to eat A LOT of maize for it to show up as a major protein contributor
- because the archaeological evidence was misleading
3. there are a lot of things that can alter the nitrogen content of plants... the soil it was grown in, the type of plant, manuring, bacteria, and ...
- water stress
- insects
- temperature
4. Ice cores and marine Cores are also good at identifying
- Dansgaard-Oecher events
- Dansgaard-Oeschger events
- Dansgard-Oshger events
5. ice cores have revolutionised our understanding of global climate. Why?
- they are very effective at giving high definition long term global sequences
- they have been used to calibrate radiocarbon dates
- they tell us a lot about local temperature so we can understand human communities living in the polar regions
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