<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hedges, Robert E.M.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Linda M. Reynard</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nitrogen isotopes and the trophic level of humans in archaeology</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of Archaeological Science</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2007</style></year></dates><number><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">8</style></number><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">34</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1240-1251</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Human and domesticate animal bone collagen δ&lt;sup&gt;15&lt;/sup&gt;N values in prehistory differ generally by 3 ‰ or more from Neolithic to post- Roman times in Northwest Europe, leading to an assumed dietary animal protein fraction of 60-80% using a standard interpretation of δ&lt;sup&gt;15&lt;/sup&gt;N values. We ex- amine the assumptions on which this model rests and the limitations of our knowledge in the analysis of δ&lt;sup&gt;15&lt;/sup&gt;N values in archaeology. We have developed a set of models which, with small changes made in assumptions (on the order of 1 ‰), can produce substantially lower estimates of the dietary animal protein fraction for given δ&lt;sup&gt;15&lt;/sup&gt;N values. We consider the implications of various dietary animal protein fractions on agricultural carrying capacities and human population densities in prehistory.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract></record></records></xml>