The first New Zealanders: patterns of diet and mobility revealed through isotope analysis.

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The first New Zealanders: patterns of diet and mobility revealed through isotope analysis.

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Direct evidence of the environmental impact of human colonization and subsequent human adaptational responses to new environments is extremely rare anywhere in the world. New Zealand was the last Polynesian island group to be settled by humans, who arrived around the end of the 13th century AD. Little is known about the nature of human adaptation and mobility during the initial phase of colonization. We report the results of the isotopic analysis (carbon, nitrogen and strontium) of the oldest...

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Rebecca L Kinaston / Richard K Walter / Chris Jacomb / Emma Brooks / Nancy Tayles / Sian E Halcrow / Claudine Stirling / Malcolm Reid / Andrew R Gray / Jean Spinks / Ben Shaw / Roger Fyfe / Hallie R Buckley

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http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3654917?pdf=render

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Medicine / Science

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