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Professor Kate Britton

Professor Kate Britton
Professor Kate Britton
Professor Kate Britton

BSc Hons (Dunelm), MSc (Reading), PhD (Dunelm, MPI-EVA), FSAScot

Personal Chair

51cg
Email Address
k.britton@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 273823
Office Address

Department of Archaeology, School of Geosciences
51cg
Room 210, St. Mary's
Elphinstone Road
Aberdeen
AB24 3UF

School/Department
School of Geosciences




Biography

Kate began her archaeological career in 2002 at Durham University, where she studied Archaeology (BSc), specialising in prehistory, bioarchaeology and palaeodietary reconstruction. She then moved on to University of Reading in 2005 to study for a NERC-funded MSc degree in Geoarchaeology. It was at Reading that Kate began to incorporate the stable isotope analysis of animal and human remains into her research. In 2006 she returned to Durham to start a PhD in Bioarchaeology, again receiving sponsorship from NERC. In 2007 she joined the Department of Human Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, initially as a doctoral candidate, and after finishing her thesis, as a post-doctoral research scientist and DAAD Junior Scholarship holder.

Kate was appointed Lecturer in Archaeological Science in the Department of Archaeology at the 51cg in 2010, becoming Senior Lecturer in 2016, and Head of Department in 2020. Kate was made Professor (Personal Chair) in 2021. 

Internal Memberships

  • Departmental social media (w/ Josh Wright)
  • Honorary Curatorial Fellow (University Museums)

Latest Publications

  • Advances in calcium isotope purification and analysis using cutting-edge signal amplifiers for matrix-diverse reference materials

    Hassler, A., Lindroos, E. E., Yang, L., Dosseto, A., Dux, F., Mester, Z., Britton, K., Bataille, C. P.
    Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, vol. 41, no. 8, pp. 2819-2835
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Symbols and subsistence: an integrated approach to animal-human relationships in early medieval Scotland, Antiquity

    Britton, K., Czere, O., Fawcett, J. P., Koster, L. J., Mitchell, J. S., Roderick, K., Müldner, G., Evans, N., Stenhouse, A. R., Sayle, K. L., Hamilton, W. D., Talamo, S., Donald, C., Boyle, A., Sheridan, A., Thompson, J., Birch, S., Mann, B., Hall, D., Dittmar, J. M., Wright, J., Girdland Flink, L., Curtis, N., Oxenham, M., Masson-MacLean, E., Noble, G.
    Antiquity
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Genomic history and selection in Roman and early medieval Britain

    Silva, M., Booth, T., Anastasiadou, K., McCabe, J., Barrington, C., Kelly, M., Williams, M., Mohamedy, Y., Masters, M., Gilardet, A., Tait, F., Swali, P., Peto, J., Glocke, I., Leggett, S., Koster, L. J., Fewlass, H., van Tiel, B., Bealin-Kelly, E., Crawford, M. R., Aldred, O. R., Allen, M. G., Biddulph, E., Booth, C., Boston, C. V., Bricking, A., Brown, L., Buckland, K., Clarke, C., Craig-Atkins, E., Curtis, N. G. W., Davie, A., Delbarre, G., Preez, J. D., Evis, L. H., Falys, C., Gibson, M., Gilbert, D., Hemer, K. A., Hood, A., Hoole, M., Kreisheh, A. N. R. H., Knight, M. G., Mays, S., Parfitt, K., Pryor, A. J. E., Redfern, R., Sayle, K. L., Seaman, J., Shell, C., Stark, S., Stoakley, M. C., Teoaca, A. C., Thompson, J. E., Walker, D., Western, G., Wilmott, H., Witkin, A., Young, A., Clough, S. J., Sheridan, J. A., Grzybowska, M. A., Loe, L., Holst, M. R., Schulting, R. J., Britton, K., Noble, G., Armit, I., Buckberry, J., Barnes, I., Brace, S., Thomas, M. G., Girdland-Flink, L., Maldonado, A., Heather, P., Lee, J. C., Speidel, L., Skoglund, P.
    Working Papers: Preprint Papers
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [ONLINE]

  • Environmental and Scientific Analyses

    Noble, G., Hamilton, D., Jones, S., Koster, L., Mainland, I., Mcmanus, E. T., Niehaus, S., Oxenham, M., Prado, S., Ramsay, S., Roshem, E., Fawcett, J. P., Masson-MacLean, E., Britton, K., Czere, O.
    Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland: The development of a landscape of Pictish royal power from the Roman to the early medieval period. Noble, G. (ed.). Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, pp. 203-255, 53 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]
    • [ONLINE]

  • Sulfur isotopes evidence spatial ecology of Late Pleistocene ungulates in southwestern France

    Barakat, S., Jimenez, E., Heikkilä, R. K., Royer, A., Hodgkins, J., Niven, L., Soulier, M., Lagle, S., Dancette, C., Steele, T. E., Castel, J., McPherron, S., Hublin, J., Ruebens, K., Discamps, E., Britton, K.
    Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 374, 109744
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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Prizes and Awards

Philip Leverhulme Prize in Archaeology (2019)

Research

Research Overview

Kate is an archaeological scientist and human palaeoecologist, specialising in the use of stable isotope analysis for the reconstruction of past diets, movements, and environments. Her research centres on the relationship between life-time behaviours, diets and movements of past humans and animals, and human-animal-environmental interactions. She specialises in the use of multi-isotope systems (δ13C, δ15N, δ18O, δ34S, 87Sr/86Sr) and the reconstruction of individual isotopic histories, focusing on the interaction between humans and animals. This includes the isotopic-identification of subsistence strategies, animal husbandry practices, the isotope ecology of archaeologically-important prey-species, and the identification of broad-scale climatic or environmental isotopic-trends. Regions/periods of focus include Late Pleistocene Europe, pre-contact Western Alaska and (early) Medieval Scotland.

Research Specialisms

  • Archaeological Sciences
  • Archaeology

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is , published under the licence.

Current Research

Past Research

Supervision

Current PhD students:

Jovita Fawcett (Aberdeen; AHRC funded, 2023 - )

Zootropolis: Multi-species archaeological, ecological and historical approaches to animals in Medieval urban

Louise Smith (Aberdeen; NERC QUADRAT DTP funded, 2022 - )

Leia Tilley (Aberdeen; NERC QUADRAT DTP funded, 2022 - )

Integrating Human Late Pleistocene Recolonisation and Environmental Histories in Scotland and Ireland (PRE-Histories) 

Lucy Koster (Aberdeen; Crick Institute; SOG funded, 2021 - )

(Aberdeen; NERC QUADRAT DTP funded, 2020 - )

Exploring the potential of multi-tissue sulphur and strontium isotope analysis and isoscape modelling to reconstruct past faunal movements

(Queen's University Belfast; NERC QUADRAT DTP funded, 2020 - )

Investigating the timing and causes of nitrogen cycle changes in Bronze Age Ireland

 

Past PhD students:

Dr Eléa Gutierrez (SBS-SOG joint funded, 2019 - 2023)

Are you what you eat during dietary stress? Multi-isotope and multi-tissue analysis on calorie restricted mice from controlled feeding experiments

(Queen's University Belfast, AHRC Northern Bridge funded, graduated 2023)

Feeding Medieval Carrickfergus: A Multi-Proxy Study of Livestock Husbandry in a Frontier Town

Dr John Graham (Aberdeen, 2016 - 2022, part-time)

Othering and Ordering in Middle Palaeolithic Archaeology

Dr Orsolya Czére (AHRC-funded, with Historic Environment Scotland, graduated 2021)

Diet from the Dark Ages to the Medieval State: a Diachronic Isotopic Study of Dietary Change in Scotland, from the Late Iron Age to the High Medieval Period

(MPI-EVA/Leiden/Aberdeen, graduated 2021)

Exploring late Pleistocene intra- and inter- site climate variability and seasonality using isotope zooarchaeology

(AHRC-funded, graduated 2018)

Caribou and the precontact Yup'ik: the isotope ecology and biogeography of a key subsistence species

 (University of Liverpool/Aberdeen, graduated 2018)

Establishing and quantifying morphological variation amongst canids: a GMM approach to identifying domesticates

Dr Edouard Masson-Maclean (AHRC-funded, graduated 2018)

Animals, subsistence and society in Yup'ik Prehistory

(NERC-funded, graduated 2015) 

Pre-contact ecology, subsistence and diet on the Yukon-Kuskowim Delta: An integrated ecosystem approach to pre-contact lifeways using zooarchaeological analysis and stable isotope techniques 

Funding and Grants

2023-

2028

People, Animals, Landscapes and Environments of Late Glacial Scotland (PALaEoScot). ERC selected, funded by UKRI Frontier Research Guarantee [Consolidator] Award (PI)

2022-2023

Determining vitamin D status in precontact Western Alaska: a new method for exploring past health and dietary adaptations to high-latitude living. Natural Environment Research Council Exploring the Frontiers Grant (PI with Prof. Baukje de Roos [co-I])

2022

Diet and deficiency: Integrating vitamin D status into palaeodietary studies using novel biomedical diagnostic tools. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council mitigation funding (PI with Prof. Baukje de Roos [co-I])

2020-2023

Philip Leverhulme Prize in Archaeology The Leverhulme Trust (PI)

2018-2021

Intergrative Approaches to late Pleistocene Herbivore Ecology, Ranging and Diet (PleistoHERD) Leverhulme Standard Grant (PI with Dr. Joshua Wright, Prof. Steeve Côté and Dr. Vaughan Grimes [co-Is])

2016-2019

Diet from the Dark Ages to the Medieval State (Historic Environment Scotland co-funded with Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Studentship to Orsolya Czére)

2016-2018

Animals, Lifeways and Lifeworlds in Yup’ik Archaeology (ALLY): Subsistence, Technologies, and Communities of Change Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) - LabEx (Fr) (PI with Dr. Isabelle Sidéra [Fr], Prof. Keith Dobney [co-I] and Dr. Rick Knecht [co-I])

2013-2018

Understanding Cultural Resilience and Climate Change on the Bering Sea through Yup'ik Ecological Knowledge, Lifeways, Learning and Archaeology Arts and Humanities Research Council Standard Research Grant (co-I with Dr. Rick Knecht [PI] and Dr. Charlotta Hillerdal [co-I])

2012-2013

Isotope analysis at St. Nicholas Kirk, Aberdeen: Diet, Health and Mobility in a Medieval Maritime Society Royal Society of Edinburgh Arts and Humanities Small Research Grant

2012

Principal's Excellence Fund Travel Grant, 51cg (SAA 2013)

2012

Maritime adaptations and dietary change in prehistoric Western Alaska: stable isotope investigations at Nunalleq Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland Research Travel Grant

2011-2013

Animal Husbandry in the Intertidal Zone: A Stable Isotope Approach to Changing Subsistence Strategies in the Belgian Coastal Plain British Academy Small Research Grant (co-PI with Dr. Gundula Müldner, University of Reading, in collaboration with Dr. Anton Ervynck, Flemish Heritage Institute)

2009-2010

Palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic reconstruction at the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic site of Neumark-Nord, Germany Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst research grant for Junior Scholars
Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

I am currently on research leave, normally I lead/contribute to the following courses:

Course Co-ordinator

  • AY2006 Test Tubes & Trowels (Undergraduate 15-credit course)
  • AY3027: Mammoths to Microliths: Life and Landscapes in Palaeolithic Europe (Undergraduate 15-credit course)
  • AY4014 Bioarchaeology (Undergraduate 15-credit course)
  • AY5001 Northern Worlds (MSc 30-credit course)

Additional Teaching

  • SX1501 Humans and Other Animals
  • ED1057 What Makes Us Human
  • AY1003 Introduction to World Prehistory
  • AY1503 Archaeology in Action
  • AY2505 The Archaeology of the North: Lifeways and Culture Change
  • AY3009 Scottish Archaeology
  • SX3012 An Appetite for Food and Health
  • AY3512 Archaeological Research Project Part I
  • AY4002 Archaeological Research Project Part II
  • AY4510 Current Issues in Archaeology
  • AY4511 Indigenous, Community and Public Archaeologies
  • AY5002 Theory and Method in Archaeological Research
  • AY5501 Northern Peoples and Cultures
  • AY5502 Advanced Archaeological Approaches
Publications

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  • Advances in calcium isotope purification and analysis using cutting-edge signal amplifiers for matrix-diverse reference materials

    Hassler, A., Lindroos, E. E., Yang, L., Dosseto, A., Dux, F., Mester, Z., Britton, K., Bataille, C. P.
    Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry, vol. 41, no. 8, pp. 2819-2835
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    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Symbols and subsistence: an integrated approach to animal-human relationships in early medieval Scotland, Antiquity

    Britton, K., Czere, O., Fawcett, J. P., Koster, L. J., Mitchell, J. S., Roderick, K., Müldner, G., Evans, N., Stenhouse, A. R., Sayle, K. L., Hamilton, W. D., Talamo, S., Donald, C., Boyle, A., Sheridan, A., Thompson, J., Birch, S., Mann, B., Hall, D., Dittmar, J. M., Wright, J., Girdland Flink, L., Curtis, N., Oxenham, M., Masson-MacLean, E., Noble, G.
    Antiquity
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Genomic history and selection in Roman and early medieval Britain

    Silva, M., Booth, T., Anastasiadou, K., McCabe, J., Barrington, C., Kelly, M., Williams, M., Mohamedy, Y., Masters, M., Gilardet, A., Tait, F., Swali, P., Peto, J., Glocke, I., Leggett, S., Koster, L. J., Fewlass, H., van Tiel, B., Bealin-Kelly, E., Crawford, M. R., Aldred, O. R., Allen, M. G., Biddulph, E., Booth, C., Boston, C. V., Bricking, A., Brown, L., Buckland, K., Clarke, C., Craig-Atkins, E., Curtis, N. G. W., Davie, A., Delbarre, G., Preez, J. D., Evis, L. H., Falys, C., Gibson, M., Gilbert, D., Hemer, K. A., Hood, A., Hoole, M., Kreisheh, A. N. R. H., Knight, M. G., Mays, S., Parfitt, K., Pryor, A. J. E., Redfern, R., Sayle, K. L., Seaman, J., Shell, C., Stark, S., Stoakley, M. C., Teoaca, A. C., Thompson, J. E., Walker, D., Western, G., Wilmott, H., Witkin, A., Young, A., Clough, S. J., Sheridan, J. A., Grzybowska, M. A., Loe, L., Holst, M. R., Schulting, R. J., Britton, K., Noble, G., Armit, I., Buckberry, J., Barnes, I., Brace, S., Thomas, M. G., Girdland-Flink, L., Maldonado, A., Heather, P., Lee, J. C., Speidel, L., Skoglund, P.
    Working Papers: Preprint Papers
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  • Environmental and Scientific Analyses

    Noble, G., Hamilton, D., Jones, S., Koster, L., Mainland, I., Mcmanus, E. T., Niehaus, S., Oxenham, M., Prado, S., Ramsay, S., Roshem, E., Fawcett, J. P., Masson-MacLean, E., Britton, K., Czere, O.
    Rhynie, A Powerful Place of Pictland: The development of a landscape of Pictish royal power from the Roman to the early medieval period. Noble, G. (ed.). Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, pp. 203-255, 53 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]
    • [ONLINE]

  • Sulfur isotopes evidence spatial ecology of Late Pleistocene ungulates in southwestern France

    Barakat, S., Jimenez, E., Heikkilä, R. K., Royer, A., Hodgkins, J., Niven, L., Soulier, M., Lagle, S., Dancette, C., Steele, T. E., Castel, J., McPherron, S., Hublin, J., Ruebens, K., Discamps, E., Britton, K.
    Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 374, 109744
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  • Giving and taking: negotiating responsible sampling for aDNA and multi-isotope analysis in practice

    Koster, L. J., Britton, K., Curtis, N., Czére, O., Dittmar, J. M., Booth, T., McCabe, J., Kelly, M., Swali, P., Tait, F., Williams, M., Gilardet, A., Silva, M., Girdland-Flink, L.
    World Archaeology, pp. 1-15
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  • Multi-isotope analysis of mammalian fauna from the Middle Pleistocene (MIS6) Lazaret Cave: palaeoecological, palaeoenvironmental and archaeological implications

    Barakat, S., Williams, K., Willmes, M., Desclaux, E., Britton, K.
    Journal of Archaeological Sciences: Reports, vol. 68, 105456
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  • The emergence and diversification of dog morphology

    Evin, A., Ameen, C., Brassard, C., Dennis, S., Antipina, E. E., Bonhomme, V., Boudadi-Maligne, M., Britton, K., Cano, F. G., Carden, R. F., Claude, J., Colominas, L., Curth, S., Fedorov, S. E., Frances, J., Kalthoff, D. C., Kitchener, A. C., Knecht, R., Kosintsev, P., Linderholm, A., Losey, R., Merts, I., Merts, V., Mostadius, M., Omura, M., Onar, V., Outram, A. K., Peters, J., Rehazek, A., Rosengren, E., Sablin, M., Sciulli, P., Seguí, M., Tseng, Z. J., Usmanova, E., Varfolomeev, V., Crockford, S., Kuzmin, Y., Frantz, L., Dobney, K., Larson, G.
    Science, vol. 390, no. 6774, pp. 741-744
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  • High-resolution compound-specific δ15N isotope dietary study of humans from the Scottish Mesolithic and Neolithic

    Martinoia, V., Craig, O. E., Charlton, S., Britton, K., Sheridan, A., Bones, A., Talbot, H., MacDonald, R., Richards, M.
    Archaeometry, vol. 67, no. 5, pp. 1309-1326
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  • Bones and teeth isotopes as archives for palaeoclimatic, palaeoenvironmental and palaeoecological data

    Stevens, R. E., Pederzani, S., Britton, K., Wexler, S. K.
    Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 357, 109320
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  • Strontium isoscapes for provenance, mobility, and migration: The way forward

    Spies, M., Alblas, A., Ambrose, S., Barakat, S., Barbarena, R., Bataille, C. P., Bowen, G. J., Britton, K., Cawthra, H., Diamond, R., Dosseto, A., Evans, J. A., Fisher, E., Gray, K., Heddell-Stevens, P., James, H. F., Holt, E., Janzen, A., Le Corré, M., Le Roux, P., Lee-Thorp, J., Mackay, A., McNeill, P. J., Montgomery, J., Mugabe, B., Oelze, V. M., Pfab, M., Richards, M., Winter-Schuh, C., Sealy, J.
    Royal Society Open Science, vol. 12, no. 6, 250283
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  • Exploring the effects of post-medieval crofting on the modern hillside ecosystem: Vegetation history as cultural legacy

    Smith, L., Oliver, J., Plunkett, G., Britton, K., Schofield, J.
    Cultural Landscapes of North-east Scotland: Collaborative Research in History and Archaeology. Shepherd, C. (ed.). Oxbow Books, pp. 147-159, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
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  • Segmental analysis of human hair reveals intra-annual variation in 25(OH)D3 concentrations in modern and archaeological individuals

    Britton, K., Czére, O., Gutierrez, E., Reynar, L. M., Laird, E., Duncan, G., de Roos, B.
    Scientific Reports, vol. 15, 3078
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  • An ensemble machine learning bioavailable strontium isoscape for Eastern Canada

    Le Corre, M., Dargent, F., Grimes, V., Wright, J., Côté, S. D., Reich, M. S., Candau, J., Miller, M., Holmes, B., Bataille, C. P., Britton, K.
    FACETS, vol. 10, pp. 1-17
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  • Dual role of human activities and climate in pre-Industrial nitrogen shifts in Ireland

    Ferrandin, S., Plunkett, G., Britton, K., Guiry, E., Beglane, F.
    Working Papers: Preprint Papers
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  • Palaeoecology of ungulates in northern Iberia during the Late Pleistocene through isotopic analysis of teeth

    Fernández-García, M., Pederzani, S., Britton, K., Agudo-Pérez, L., Cicero, A., Geiling, J. M., Daura, J., Sanz, M., Marín-Arroyo, A. B.
    Biogeosciences, vol. 21, no. 19, pp. 4413-4437
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  • Carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur elemental and isotopic variations in mouse hair and bone collagen during short-term graded calorie restriction

    Gutierrez, E., Mitchell, S., Hambly, C., Sayle, K. l., Von kriegsheim, A., Speakman, J. r., Britton, K.
    iScience, vol. 27, no. 6, 110059
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  • Multi-isotope reconstruction of Late Pleistocene large-herbivore biogeography and mobility patterns in Central Europe

    Heddell-Stevens, P., Jöris, O., Britton, K., Matthies, T., Lucas, M., Scott, E., Le Roux, P., Meller, H., Roberts, P.
    Communications Biology, vol. 7, 568
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  • Late Pleistocene prey mobility in southwestern France and its implications for reconstructing Neandertal ranging behaviors

    Hodgkins, J., Bertacchi, A., Knudson, K. J., Rasbury, T., Giblin, J. I., Gordon, G., Anbar, A., Turq, A., Sandgathe, D., Keller, H. M., Britton, K., McPherron, S. P.
    Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 331, 108610
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  • Stable isotopes show Homo sapiens dispersed into cold steppes ~45,000 years ago at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany

    Pederzani, S., Britton, K., Trost, M., Fewlass, H., Bourgon, N., McCormack, J., Jaouen, K., Dietl, H., Döhle, H. J., Kirchner, A., Lauer, T., Le Corre, M., McPherron, S. P., Meller, H., Mylopotamitaki, D., Orschiedt, J., Rougier, H., Ruebens, K., Schüler, T., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Smith, G. M., Talamo, S., Tütken, T., Welker, F., Zavala, E. I., Weiss, M., Hublin, J. J.
    Nature Ecology and Evolution, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 578-588
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  • The ecology, subsistence and diet of ~45,000-year-old Homo sapiens at Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany

    Smith, G. M., Ruebens, K., Zavala, E. I., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Fewlass, H., Pederzani, S., Jaouen, K., Mylopotamitaki, D., Britton, K., Rougier, H., Stahlschmidt, M., Meyer, M., Meller, H., Dietl, H., Orschiedt, J., Krause, J., Schüler, T., McPherron, S. P., Weiss, M., Hublin, J. J., Welker, F.
    Nature Ecology and Evolution, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 564-577
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  • The Bears of Scotland

    Kitchener, A., Britton, K.
    Annales Zoologici Fennici, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 387-414
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  • Ancient dental calculus reveals oral microbiome shifts associated with lifestyle and disease in Great Britain

    Gancz, A., Ferrer, A., Nixon, M., Wright, S., Arriola, L., Christina, A., Davenport, E., Gully, N., Cooper, A., Britton, K., Dobney, K., Silverman, J., Weyrich, L.
    Nature Microbiology, vol. 8, pp. 2315-2325
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  • Late Pleistocene Neanderthal exploitation of stable and mosaic ecosystems in northern Iberia shown by multi-isotope evidence

    Pederzani, S. C., Britton, K., Jones, J. R., Pérez, L. A., Geiling, J. M., Marín-Arroyo, A. B.
    Quaternary Research, vol. 116, pp. 108-132
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  • Multi-isotope analysis of bone collagen of Late Pleistocene ungulates reveals niche partitioning and behavioural plasticity of reindeer during MIS 3

    Britton, K., Jimenez, E., Le Corre, M., Renou, S., Rendu, W., Richards, M. P., Hublin, J., Soressi, M.
    Scientific Reports, vol. 13, 15722
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  • New zooarchaeological evidence from Pictish sites in Scotland: implications for early medieval economies and animal-human relationships

    Masson-MacLean, E., Niehaus, S., Fraser, E., Lee, V., Prado, S., Czére, O., Fawcett, J., O'Driscoll, J., Girdland-Flink, L., Noble, G., Britton, K.
    Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, vol. 2, 1208908
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  • Imputed genomes and haplotype-based analyses of the Picts of early medieval Scotland reveal fine-scale relatedness between Iron Age, early medieval and the modern people of the UK

    Morez, A., Britton, K., Noble, G., Günther, T., Götherström, A., Rodríguez Varela, R., Kashuba, N., Martiniano, R., Talamo, S., Evans, N., Irish, J., Donald, C., Girdland Flink, L.
    PLoS Genetics, vol. 19, no. 4, e1010360
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  • Comparison between strip sampling and laser ablation methods to infer seasonal movements from intra-tooth strontium isotopes profiles in migratory caribou

    Le Corre, M., Grimes, V., Lam, R., Britton, K.
    Scientific Reports, vol. 13, no. 1, 3621
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  • Laser ablation strontium isotopes and spatial assignment show seasonal mobility in red deer (Cervus elaphus) at Lazaret Cave, France (MIS 6)

    Barakat, S., Le Corre, M., Willmes, M., Cohen, J., Vuillien, M., Desclaux, E., Britton, K.
    Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 11, 988837
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  • Multi-isotope zooarchaeological investigations at Abri du Maras: The paleoecological and paleoenvironmental context of Neanderthal subsistence strategies in the Rhône Valley during MIS 3

    Britton, K., Jimenez, E., Le Corre, M., Pederzani, S. C., Daujeard, C., Jaouen, K., Vettese, D., Tütken, T., Hublin, J., Moncel, M.
    Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 174, 103292
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  • Caroline Rosa Wickham-Jones, MA MSocSci FSA HonFSAScot MCIfA

    Harden, J., Bates, M., Bates, R., Britton, K., Clarke, A., Dawson, S., Finlay, N., Macinnes, L., Noble, G., Shepherd, L.
    Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. 151, pp. 15-26
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  • Editorial: A Golden Age for Strontium Isotope Research? Current Advances in Paleoecological and Archaeological Research

    Britton, K., Crowley, B. E., Bataille, C. P., Miller, J. H., Wooller, M. J.
    Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 9, 820295
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  • Ghosts in the Landscape: Challenges and Opportunities in the Search for Scotland’s Palaeolithic People

    Britton, K.
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  • The Bodies in the ‘Bog’: A Multi-Isotope Investigation of Individual Life-Histories at an Unusual 6th/7th AD Century Group Burial from a Roman Latrine at Cramond, Scotland

    Czére, O., Lawson, J., Müldner, G., Evans, J., Boyle, A., Britton, K.
    Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, vol. 14, 67
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  • Silver Linings at the Dawn of a ‘Golden Age'

    Britton, K., Crowley, B. E., Bataille, C. P., Miller, J. H., Wooller, M. J.
    Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 9, 748938
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  • Subarctic climate for the earliest Homo sapiens in Europe

    Sarah, P., Kate, B., Vera, A., Nicolas, B., Helen, F., Tobias, L., P., M. S., Zeljko, R., Nikolay, S., M., S. G., Rosen, S., N.-Han, T., Tsenka, T., Jean-Jacques, H.
    Science Advances, vol. 7, no. 39, eabi4642
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  • Palaeoproteomic analyses of dog palaeofaeces reveal a preserved dietary and host digestive proteome

    Runge, A. K., Hendy, J., Richter, K., Masson-MacLean, E., Britton, K., Mackie, M., McGrath, K., Collins, M., Cappellini, E., Speller, C.
    Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 288, no. 1954, 20210020
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  • Reconstructing Late Pleistocene paleoclimate at the scale of human behavior: an example from the Neandertal occupation of La Ferrassie (France)

    Pederzani, S. C., Aldeiasa, V., Dibble, H. L., Goldberg, P., Hublin, J., Madelaineh, S., McPherron, S. P., Sandgathe, D., Steele, T. E., Britton, K., Turq, A.
    Scientific Reports, vol. 11, 1419
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  • Multi-isotope analysis of the human skeletal remains from Blair Atholl, Perth & Kinross, Scotland: insights into the diet and lifetime mobility of an early medieval individual

    Czére, O., Fawcett, J., Evans, J., Sayle, K. L., Müldner, G., Hall, M. A., Williams, B., Mitchell, J., Noble, G., Britton, K.
    Tayside and Fife Archaeological Journal, vol. 27, pp. 31-44
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  • Sampling Plants and Malacofauna in 87Sr/86Sr Bioavailability Studies: implications for isoscape mapping and reconstructing of past mobility patterns

    Britton, K., Le Corre, M., Willmes, M., Moffat, I., Grün, R., Mannino, M. A., Woodward, S., Jaouen, K.
    Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 8, 579473
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  • New isotope evidence for diachronic and site-spatial variation in precontact diet during the Little Ice Age at Nunalleq, southwest Alaska: Nouvelles donnees isotopiques mettant en evidence l'organisation spatiale et les variations temporelles dans l'alimentation precontact durant le petit age glaciaire a Nunalleq (sud-ouest de l'Alaska)

    Britton, K.
    Études Inuit Studies, vol. 43, no. 1-2, pp. 223-242
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  • Activity Areas or Conflict Episode? Interpreting the Spatial Patterning of Lice and Fleas at the Precontact Yup’ik Site of Nunalleq (16-17th Centuries AD, Alaska)

    Forbes, V., Huchet, J., Gómez Coutouly, Y. A., Masson-MacLean, J., Masson-MacLean, E., Britton, K., Hillerdal, C., Knecht, R., Ledger, P., Mcmanus-Fry, E. T.
    Études Inuit Studies, vol. 43, no. 1-2, pp. 197-221
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  • Environmental conditions at the Last Interglacial (Eemian) site Neumark-Nord 2, Germany inferred from stable isotope analysis of freshwater mollusc opercula

    Milano, S., Pop, E., Kuijper, W., Roebroeks, W., Gaudzinski-Windheuser, S., Penkman, K., Kindler, L., Britton, K.
    Boreas, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 477-487
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  • Pre-contact adaptations to the Little Ice Age in Southwest Alaska: New evidence from the Nunalleq site

    Masson-MacLean, E., Houmard, C., Knecht, R., Sidéra, I., Dobney, K., Britton, K.
    Quaternary International, vol. 549, pp. 130-141
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  • CoproID predicts the source of coprolites and paleofeces using microbiome composition and host DNA content

    Borry, M., Cordova, B., Perri, A., Wibowo, M. C., Honap, T. P., Ko, J., Yu, J., Britton, K., Girdland Flink, L., Power, R. C., Stuijts, I., Garcia, D. S., Hofman, C. A., Hagan, R. W., Kagone, T. S., Meda, N., Carabin, H., Jacobson, D., Reinhard, K., Lewis, Jr., C. M., Kostic, A., Jeong, C., Herbig, A., Hubner, A., Warinner, C.
    PeerJ, vol. 8, e9001
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  • The archaeology of dogs at the precontact Yup’ik site of Nunalleq, Western Alaska

    Masson-MacLean, E., McManus-Fry, E., Britton, K.
    Beyond Domestication: Archaeological Investigations into the Human-Canine Connection. Burtt, A., Bethke, B. (eds.). University Press of Florida, pp. 72-102, 30 pages
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  • What's the Catch?: Archaeological application of rapid collagen-based species identification for Pacific Salmon

    Korzow-Richter, K., McGrath, K., Masson-MacLean, E., Hickinbotham, S., Tedder, A., Britton, K., Bottomley, Z., Dobney, K., Hulme-Beaman, A., Zona, M., Fischer, R., Collins, M., Speller, C.
    Journal of Archaeological Science, vol. 116, 105116
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  • Anion exchange resin and slow precipitation preclude the need for pretreatments in silver phosphate preparation for oxygen isotope analysis of bioapatites

    Pederzani, S., Snoeck, C., Wacker, U., Britton, K.
    Chemical Geology, vol. 534, 119455
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  • Archaeological Science: An Introduction

    Richards, M. (ed.), Britton, K. (ed.)
    Cambridge University Press. 400 pages
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  • Introducing Archaeological Science

    Britton, K., Richards, M. P.
    Archaeological Science: An Introduction. Richards, M., Britton, K. (eds.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-10, 8 pages
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