Resumen de Investigating population movement by stable isotope analysis: a report from Britain

Paul Budd, Andrew R. Millard, Carolyn Chenery, Sam Lucy, Charlotte Roberts

• Stable isotopes present in local ground water get into people's teeth before they are 12 years old, and act as a signature to the area where they grew up (and drank the water). In a review of recent work in Britain the authors show the huge potential of this method for detecting population movement – and thus ultimately for investigating questions of migration, exogamy and slavery.