Assessment of nutritional stress in famine burials using stable isotope analysis.
Brittany S WalterSharon N DeWitteTosha L DuprasJulia BeaumontPublished in: American journal of physical anthropology (2020)
The results of this study may reflect differences in diet between burial types rather than nutritional stress. Though nutritional stress could not be definitively identified using bone and dentine collagen, the results from dentine analysis support previous observations of biochemical patterns associated with nutritional stress during childhood.