Yes / Bioarchaeological and clinical data show that diet influences health, and this relationship is crucial to
how we understand past health with respect to sex and age. We propose a new method that coinvestigates the relationship between mortality risk and diet in the past. Our method integrates dietary
stable isotope data (δ13 Carbon and
δ
15 Nitrogen) from Roman Britain (N=659) with hazards analysis.
The results show that these data can be informatively used in this type of analysis in general, and that
in the context of Roman Britain, higher
δ
13C is associated with lower risks of mortality while higher
δ
15N is associated with elevated risks of mortality. Importantly, the results emphasize that a
bioarchaeological approach to interpretation must be taken in order to more fully understand the
results obtained by the method
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/17244 |
| Date | 30 August 2019 |
| Creators | Redfern, R.C., DeWitte, S.N., Beaumont, Julia, Millard, A.R., Hamlin, C. |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, Accepted manuscript |
| Rights | © 2019 Taylor & Francis. The Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in Annals of Human Biology 1st Sep 2019 http://www.tandfonline.com/https://doi.org/10.1080/03014460.2019.1662484. |
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