Isotopic reconstruction of short to absent breastfeeding in a 19th century rural Dutch community
Artificial feeding of young infants is considered a modern phenomenon. However, historical sources note its practice in some past European populations. This research explores factors that contributed to a short to absent period of breastfeeding in pre-modern Netherlands. Stable nitrogen and carbon isotope analysis is undertaken on 277 19 th century individuals from Beemster, a, rural, mainly Protestant, dairy farming community. An intra-individual sampling approach for ≤6 year-olds compares newer metaphyseal to older diaphyseal long bone collagen to classify feeding status at death. Archivally... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2022 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | PLOS ONE ; volume 17, issue 4, page e0265821 ; ISSN 1932-6203 |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
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Schlagwörter: | Multidisciplinary |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27060652 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0265821 |