Childhood in Colonial Otago, New Zealand: Integrating Isotopic and Dental Evidence for Growth Disturbance and Oral Health

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Childhood in Colonial Otago, New Zealand: Integrating Isotopic and Dental Evidence for Growth Disturbance and Oral Health

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Experiences of childhood in colonial New Zealand are difficult to reconstruct from the historical record alone. Many of those who came to the colony were illiterate, and the Victorian tendency to avoid discussion of pregnancy and breastfeeding practices restricts our understanding of this important period. Bioarchaeological investigation, however, has the potential to illuminate the life stories of these first-generation Pākehā (European) settlers. Here we use isotopic evidence combined with ...

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08 Nov, 2021

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Charlotte L. King / Rebecca L. Kinaston / Anne Marie E. Snoddy / Hallie R. Buckley / Peter Petchey / Andrew R. Millard / Darren R. Gröcke

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Colonial New Zealand / carbon isotopes / nitrogen isotopes / linear enamel hypoplasia / Vitamin D deficiency / Evolutionary Biology / Ecology / Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified / Cancer

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