Author Question: Schoeninger interpreted the greater range of nitrogen isotope ratios in the Stillwater burial ... (Read 103 times)

tth · **on:** Jul 20, 2018

Schoeninger interpreted the greater range of nitrogen isotope ratios in the Stillwater burial population compared to the Pecos or Ontario populations as reflecting

a. greater dietary variability in the Pecos and Ontario populations than in the Stillwater population.
b. greater dietary variability in the Stillwater population than in the Pecos and Ontario populations
c. the fact that the Stillwater population had an increasing dependence on meat through time
d. an individual's age or sex; in the Stillwater population, children ate less meat than adults and males ate more meat than females.
e. the addition of pion nuts to the Stillwater diet.

Question 2

If stable isotope analysis is conducted on a human skeleton that during life consumed a diet rich in C4 plants such as maize and very little meat, then the isotopic ratios of the bones would show

a. a high ratio of 12C to 13C.
b. a high ratio of 13C to 12C.
c. a high ratio of 15N to 14N.
d. a high ratio of 13C to 15N.
e. a high ration of 14N to 15N.