List of works - Julia Lee-Thorp

78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest.

scientific article

A 12,000 year record of changes in herbivore niche separation and palaeoclimate (Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa)

scientific article

A 16-Ma record of paleodiet using carbon and oxygen isotopes in fossil teeth from Pakistan

article

A Brief Update on Developments in Early Hominin Biogeochemistry

A guide for an anatomically sensitive dentine microsampling and age-alignment approach for human teeth isotopic sequences

scientific article published on 11 August 2020

An isotopic generation: four decades of stable isotope analysis in African archaeology

scientific article published on 2 January 2016

Assessing diet in savanna herbivores using stable carbon isotope ratios of faeces ⬇️

scientific article published on 30 June 2005

Beyond documenting diagenesis: The fifth international bone diagenesis workshop

scientific article published in 2008

Beyond the drip-line: a high-resolution open-air Holocene hunter-gatherer sequence from highland Lesotho

Biogeochemical and craniometric investigation of dietary ecology, niche separation, and taxonomy of Plio-Pleistocene cercopithecoids from the Makapansgat Limeworks.

scientific article

Bulk and intra-tooth enamel stable isotopes of waterbuckKobus ellipsiprymnusfrom Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda

scholarly article by Sandi R. Copeland et al published December 2008 in African Journal of Ecology

Calcined bone provides a reliable substrate for strontium isotope ratios as shown by an enrichment experiment

scientific article published in January 2015

Climate, Environment and Early Human Innovation: Stable Isotope and Faunal Proxy Evidence from Archaeological Sites (98-59ka) in the Southern Cape, South Africa

scientific article

Contributions of biogeochemistry to understanding hominin dietary ecology

scientific article

Dating human occupation and adaptation in the southern European last glacial refuge: The chronostratigraphy of Grotta del Romito (Italy)

article

Dental microwear and stable isotopes inform the paleoecology of extinct hominins

scientific article published on June 2012

Did Our Species Evolve in Subdivided Populations across Africa, and Why Does It Matter?

scientific article published in 2018

Direct evidence for human reliance on rainforest resources in late Pleistocene Sri Lanka

scientific article published on March 2015

ELEPHANT (LOXODONTA AFRICANA) DIETS IN KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, SOUTH AFRICA: SPATIAL AND LANDSCAPE DIFFERENCES

article

Early life histories of the London poor using δ13C and δ15N stable isotope incremental dentine sampling

scientific article published on 5 June 2014

Erratum: Strontium isotope evidence for landscape use by early hominins

scientific article published in Nature

Exploring the variation of the δ18Op and δ18Oc relationship in enamel increments

scientific article published in 2011

Faunal migration in late-glacial central Italy: implications for human resource exploitation

scientific article published in June 2008

Finding Vikings in the Danelaw

Fossil herbivore stable isotopes reveal middle Pleistocene hominin palaeoenvironment in 'Green Arabia'

scientific article published in 2018

Fruits of the forest: Human stable isotope ecology and rainforest adaptations in Late Pleistocene and Holocene (∼36 to 3 ka) Sri Lanka.

scientific article published on 21 March 2017

Holocene Climate Variability

scholarly article

Holocene geochronology of a continentalshelf mudbelt off southwestern Africa

article

Hominin Ecology from Hard-Tissue Biogeochemistry

Hominins, sedges, and termites: new carbon isotope data from the Sterkfontein valley and Kruger National Park.

scientific article

Impact of contamination and pre-treatment on stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of charred plant remains

scientific article

Indications of habitat association of Australopithecus robustus in the Bloubank Valley, South Africa

scientific article published on 27 September 2008

Intra-tooth stable isotope analysis of dentine: a step toward addressing selective mortality in the reconstruction of life history in the archaeological record

scientific article

Isotopic evidence for an early shift to C₄ resources by Pliocene hominins in Chad

scientific article (publication date: 11 December 2012)

Isotopic evidence for changing mobility and landscape use patterns between the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in western Ireland

scientific article published in April 2020

Isotopic evidence for dietary variability in the early hominin Paranthropus robustus

scientific article

Isotopic evidence for divergent diets and mobility patterns in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile, during the Late Intermediate Period (AD 900-1450).

scientific article

Landscape-scale feeding patterns of African elephant inferred from carbon isotope analysis of feces

scientific article

Late Quaternary environmental change in the Southern Cape, South Africa, from stable carbon and oxygen isotopes in faunal tooth enamel from Boomplaas Cave

article

Mobility during the neolithic and bronze age in northern ireland explored using strontium isotope analysis of cremated human bone.

scientific article

Multi-isotope evidence for the emergence of cultural alterity in Late Neolithic Europe

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

New Radiocarbon Dates and Bayesian Models for Nelson Bay Cave and Byneskranskop 1: Implications for the South African Later Stone Age Sequence

Niche partitioning in sympatric Gorilla and Pan from Cameroon: implications for life history strategies and for reconstructing the evolution of hominin life history

scientific article

Of cattle and feasts: Multi-isotope investigation of animal husbandry and communal feasting at Neolithic Makriyalos, northern Greece.

scientific article published on 7 June 2018

Oxygen Isotopes in Enamel Carbonate and their Ecological Significance

Protein sequences bound to mineral surfaces persist into deep time ⬇️

scientific article

Publisher Correction: 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest.

scientific article

Radiocarbon Dates Constrain the Timing of Environmental and Cultural Shifts in the Holocene Strata of Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa

scientific article

Reply to Fontes-Villalba et al.: On a reluctance to conjecture about animal food consumption

scientific article published on October 2013

Seasonal scheduling of shellfish collection in the Middle and Later Stone Ages of southern Africa

scientific article published on 10 January 2019

Sr/Ca and early hominin diets revisited: new data from modern and fossil tooth enamel.

scientific article

Stable carbon and oxygen isotopic evidence for late Pleistocene to middle Holocene climatic fluctuations in the interior of southern Africa

article

Stable carbon isotope ratio differences between bone collagen and bone apatite, and their relationship to diet

article by Julia A. Lee-Thorp et al published November 1989 in Journal of Archaeological Science

Stable carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen, isotope analysis of plants from a South Asian tropical forest: Implications for primatology.

scientific article published on 27 March 2017

Stable isotope characterization of mammalian predator–prey relationships in a South African savanna

scholarly article by Daryl Codron et al published 28 November 2006 in European Journal of Wildlife Research

Stable isotope evidence for impalaAepyceros melampusdiets at Akagera National Park, Rwanda

article

Stable isotope evidence of late MIS 3 to middle Holocene palaeoenvironments from Sehonghong Rockshelter, eastern Lesotho

article

Stable isotope series from elephant ivory reveal lifetime histories of a true dietary generalist

scientific article (publication date: 22 June 2012)

Stable isotope turnover and variability in tail hairs of captive and free-ranging African elephants (Loxodonta africana) reveal dietary niche differences within populations

scientific article published in 2013

Stable isotopes in fossil hominin tooth enamel suggest a fundamental dietary shift in the Pliocene

scientific article (publication date: 27 October 2010)

Stable isotopes reveal intensive pig husbandry practices in the middle Yellow River region by the Yangshao period (7000–5000 BP)

scientific article published in 2021

Strontium isotope analysis on cremated human remains from Stonehenge support links with west Wales ⬇️

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Strontium isotope evidence for landscape use by early hominins

scientific article (publication date: 2 June 2011)

Strontium isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) of tooth enamel: a comparison of solution and laser ablation multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry methods

scientific article

Strontium isotope ratios in fossil teeth from South Africa: assessing laser ablation MC-ICP-MS analysis and the extent of diagenesis

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The carbon isotope ecology and diet of Australopithecus africanus at Sterkfontein, South Africa

scientific article published in May 2003

The demise of “Nutcracker Man” ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 7 June 2011)

The dietary ecology of the extinct springbok Antidorcas bondi

scholarly article

The palaeoecological context of the Oldowan–Acheulean in southern Africa

scientific article published on 21 May 2018

The palaeoecology of the non-mammalian cynodonts Diademodon and Cynognathus from the Karoo Basin of South Africa, using stable light isotope analysis

article

The ups & downs of Iron Age animal management on the Oxfordshire Ridgeway, south-central England: A multi-isotope approach

scientific article published in January 2019

Three case studies used to reassess the reliability of fossil bone and enamel isotope signals for paleodietary studies

scholarly article by Julia Lee-Thorp published in September 2003

Timing of C4 grass expansion across sub-Saharan Africa

scientific article published on October 2007

Towards a biologically available strontium isotope baseline for Ireland

scientific article published on 20 December 2019

Tracking changing environments using stable carbon isotopes in fossil tooth enamel: an example from the South African hominin sites

scientific article published on 24 October 2007

Tropical forests and the genus Homo

scientific article published on November 2016

Using carbon isotopes to track dietary change in modern, historical, and ancient primates

scientific article

Victims and survivors: stable isotopes used to identify migrants from the Great Irish Famine to 19th century London

scientific article published on 2 November 2012

List of works by Julia Lee-Thorp

78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later stone age innovation in an East African tropical forest.

A 12,000 year record of changes in herbivore niche separation and palaeoclimate (Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa)

A 16-Ma record of paleodiet using carbon and oxygen isotopes in fossil teeth from Pakistan

A Brief Update on Developments in Early Hominin Biogeochemistry

A guide for an anatomically sensitive dentine microsampling and age-alignment approach for human teeth isotopic sequences

An isotopic generation: four decades of stable isotope analysis in African archaeology

Assessing diet in savanna herbivores using stable carbon isotope ratios of faeces ⬇️

Beyond documenting diagenesis: The fifth international bone diagenesis workshop

Beyond the drip-line: a high-resolution open-air Holocene hunter-gatherer sequence from highland Lesotho

Biogeochemical and craniometric investigation of dietary ecology, niche separation, and taxonomy of Plio-Pleistocene cercopithecoids from the Makapansgat Limeworks.

Bulk and intra-tooth enamel stable isotopes of waterbuckKobus ellipsiprymnusfrom Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda

Calcined bone provides a reliable substrate for strontium isotope ratios as shown by an enrichment experiment

Climate, Environment and Early Human Innovation: Stable Isotope and Faunal Proxy Evidence from Archaeological Sites (98-59ka) in the Southern Cape, South Africa

Contributions of biogeochemistry to understanding hominin dietary ecology

Dating human occupation and adaptation in the southern European last glacial refuge: The chronostratigraphy of Grotta del Romito (Italy)

Dental microwear and stable isotopes inform the paleoecology of extinct hominins

Did Our Species Evolve in Subdivided Populations across Africa, and Why Does It Matter?

Direct evidence for human reliance on rainforest resources in late Pleistocene Sri Lanka

ELEPHANT (LOXODONTA AFRICANA) DIETS IN KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, SOUTH AFRICA: SPATIAL AND LANDSCAPE DIFFERENCES

Early life histories of the London poor using δ13C and δ15N stable isotope incremental dentine sampling

Erratum: Strontium isotope evidence for landscape use by early hominins

Exploring the variation of the δ18Op and δ18Oc relationship in enamel increments

Faunal migration in late-glacial central Italy: implications for human resource exploitation

Finding Vikings in the Danelaw

Fossil herbivore stable isotopes reveal middle Pleistocene hominin palaeoenvironment in 'Green Arabia'

Fruits of the forest: Human stable isotope ecology and rainforest adaptations in Late Pleistocene and Holocene (∼36 to 3 ka) Sri Lanka.

Holocene Climate Variability

Holocene geochronology of a continentalshelf mudbelt off southwestern Africa

Hominin Ecology from Hard-Tissue Biogeochemistry

Hominins, sedges, and termites: new carbon isotope data from the Sterkfontein valley and Kruger National Park.

Impact of contamination and pre-treatment on stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition of charred plant remains

Indications of habitat association of Australopithecus robustus in the Bloubank Valley, South Africa

Intra-tooth stable isotope analysis of dentine: a step toward addressing selective mortality in the reconstruction of life history in the archaeological record

Isotopic evidence for an early shift to C₄ resources by Pliocene hominins in Chad

Isotopic evidence for changing mobility and landscape use patterns between the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age in western Ireland

Isotopic evidence for dietary variability in the early hominin Paranthropus robustus

Isotopic evidence for divergent diets and mobility patterns in the Atacama Desert, northern Chile, during the Late Intermediate Period (AD 900-1450).

Landscape-scale feeding patterns of African elephant inferred from carbon isotope analysis of feces

Late Quaternary environmental change in the Southern Cape, South Africa, from stable carbon and oxygen isotopes in faunal tooth enamel from Boomplaas Cave

Mobility during the neolithic and bronze age in northern ireland explored using strontium isotope analysis of cremated human bone.

Multi-isotope evidence for the emergence of cultural alterity in Late Neolithic Europe

New Radiocarbon Dates and Bayesian Models for Nelson Bay Cave and Byneskranskop 1: Implications for the South African Later Stone Age Sequence

Niche partitioning in sympatric Gorilla and Pan from Cameroon: implications for life history strategies and for reconstructing the evolution of hominin life history

Of cattle and feasts: Multi-isotope investigation of animal husbandry and communal feasting at Neolithic Makriyalos, northern Greece.

Oxygen Isotopes in Enamel Carbonate and their Ecological Significance

Protein sequences bound to mineral surfaces persist into deep time ⬇️

Publisher Correction: 78,000-year-old record of Middle and Later Stone Age innovation in an East African tropical forest.

Radiocarbon Dates Constrain the Timing of Environmental and Cultural Shifts in the Holocene Strata of Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa

Reply to Fontes-Villalba et al.: On a reluctance to conjecture about animal food consumption

Seasonal scheduling of shellfish collection in the Middle and Later Stone Ages of southern Africa

Sr/Ca and early hominin diets revisited: new data from modern and fossil tooth enamel.

Stable carbon and oxygen isotopic evidence for late Pleistocene to middle Holocene climatic fluctuations in the interior of southern Africa

Stable carbon isotope ratio differences between bone collagen and bone apatite, and their relationship to diet

Stable carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen, isotope analysis of plants from a South Asian tropical forest: Implications for primatology.

Stable isotope characterization of mammalian predator–prey relationships in a South African savanna

Stable isotope evidence for impalaAepyceros melampusdiets at Akagera National Park, Rwanda

Stable isotope evidence of late MIS 3 to middle Holocene palaeoenvironments from Sehonghong Rockshelter, eastern Lesotho

Stable isotope series from elephant ivory reveal lifetime histories of a true dietary generalist

Stable isotope turnover and variability in tail hairs of captive and free-ranging African elephants (Loxodonta africana) reveal dietary niche differences within populations

Stable isotopes in fossil hominin tooth enamel suggest a fundamental dietary shift in the Pliocene

Stable isotopes reveal intensive pig husbandry practices in the middle Yellow River region by the Yangshao period (7000–5000 BP)

Strontium isotope analysis on cremated human remains from Stonehenge support links with west Wales ⬇️

Strontium isotope evidence for landscape use by early hominins

Strontium isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) of tooth enamel: a comparison of solution and laser ablation multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry methods

Strontium isotope ratios in fossil teeth from South Africa: assessing laser ablation MC-ICP-MS analysis and the extent of diagenesis

The carbon isotope ecology and diet of Australopithecus africanus at Sterkfontein, South Africa

The demise of “Nutcracker Man” ⬇️

The dietary ecology of the extinct springbok Antidorcas bondi

The palaeoecological context of the Oldowan–Acheulean in southern Africa

The palaeoecology of the non-mammalian cynodonts Diademodon and Cynognathus from the Karoo Basin of South Africa, using stable light isotope analysis

The ups & downs of Iron Age animal management on the Oxfordshire Ridgeway, south-central England: A multi-isotope approach

Three case studies used to reassess the reliability of fossil bone and enamel isotope signals for paleodietary studies

Timing of C4 grass expansion across sub-Saharan Africa

Towards a biologically available strontium isotope baseline for Ireland

Tracking changing environments using stable carbon isotopes in fossil tooth enamel: an example from the South African hominin sites

Tropical forests and the genus Homo

Using carbon isotopes to track dietary change in modern, historical, and ancient primates

Victims and survivors: stable isotopes used to identify migrants from the Great Irish Famine to 19th century London

What Insights Can Baboon Feeding Ecology Provide for Early Hominin Niche Differentiation?