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PUBLICATIONS: REFEREED JOURNALS
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Gilbert, M.Y.P., Wilson, A.S., Bunce, M., Hansen, A.J., Willerslev, E., Shapiro, B.,Higham, T.F.G., Richards, M.P., O’Connell, T.C., Tobin, D.J., Janaway, R.C., and A. Cooper (2004) Ancient mitochondrial DNA from hair. Current Biology 14(463-464).

Hedges, R.E.M., Richards, M.P., and R. Stevens (2004) Using bone stable isotopes as a source for local climatic information, Journal of Quaternary Science 23:959-965

Dickson, J.H., Richards, M.P., Hebda, R.J., Mudie, P.J., Beattie, O., Ramsay, S., Turner, N.J., Leighton, B.J., Webster, J.M., Hobischak, N.R., Anderson, G.S., Troffe, P.M., and R. J. Wigen (in press) Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchí, the first ancient glacier body from North America: Reconstructing his last days by intestinal and biomolecular analyses. Holocene.

Fuller, B.T., Richards, M.P., and S. Mays (2003) Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope variations in tooth dentine subsections from Wharram Percy, Journal of Archaeological Science 30: 1673-1684.
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Richards, M.P., Schulting, R.J. and R.E.M. Hedges (2003) Archaeology: Sharp shift in diet at onset of Neolithic. Nature 425:366 [pdf]

 
     
Lillie, M., Richards, M.P. and K. Jacobs (2003). Stable isotope analysis of twenty-one individuals from the Epipalaeolithic cemetery of Vasilyevka III, Dnieper Rapids region, Ukraine, Journal of Archaeological Science 30:743-752.

Pettitt, P.B., Richards, M.P., Maggi, R. and V. Formicola (2003). The Gravettian burial known as the Prince (‘Il Principe’): new evidence for his age and diet. Antiquity 295:15-19.

Richards, M.P., and R.E.M. Hedges (2003). Bone collagen ?13C and ?15N values of fauna from Northwest Europe reflect palaeoclimatic variation over the last 40,000 years. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 193:261-267 [pdf]

Richards, M.P. Price, T.D., and E. Koch. (2003) The Mesolithic/Neolithic Transition in Denmark: New stable isotope data. Current Anthropology 44:288-294.

Richards, M.P., Molleson, T.I. Martin L., Russell, N. and J.A. Pearson (2003). Palaeodietary evidence from Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey. Journal of Archaeological Science 30:67-76.

Richards, M.P., Fuller, B.T., Sponheimer, M., Robinson T., and L. Ayliffe (2003). Sulphur isotope measurements in archaeological samples: some methodological considerations. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 13:37-45. [pdf]

Schulting, R.J., and M.P. Richards (2002). Finding the coastal Mesolithic in Southwest Britain: AMS dates and stable isotope results on human remains from Caldey Island, South Wales. Antiquity 76:1011-1025.

Richards, M.P. (2002). A brief review of the archaeological evidence for Palaeolithic and Neolithic subsistence. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 56:1270-1278. [pdf]

Richards, M.P., Mays, S., and B. Fuller (2002). Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values of bone and teeth reflect weaning at the Mediaeval Wharram Percy Site, Yorkshire, U.K. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 199:205-210. [pdf]

Monsalve, M.V., Stone, A.C., Lewis, C.M., Rempel, A., Richards, M.P., Straathof, S., and D.V. Devine (2002). Molecular analysis of the Kwäday Dän Ts'ìnchi ancient remains found in a glacier in Canada, American Journal of Physical Anthropology 199:288-291.

Kuzmin, Y.V., Richards, M.P., and M. Yoneda (2002). Palaeodietary patterning and radiocarbon dating of Neolithic populations in the Primorye Province, Russian Far East. Ancient Biomolecules 4: 53-58.

Privat, K.L., O’Connell, T.C., and M. P. Richards (2002). Stable isotope analysis of human and faunal remains from the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Berinsfield, Oxfordshire: Dietary and social implications. Journal of Archaeological Science. 29:779-790.

Mays, S. Richards, M.P. and B. Fuller (2002). Bone stable isotope evidence for infant feeding in Mediaeval England. Antiquity 76:654-656.

Pike, A.W.G. and M.P. Richards (2002). Diagenetic arsenic uptake in archaeological bone: Can we really identify copper smelters? Journal of Archaeological Science 29:607-611.

Schulting, R.J. and M.P. Richards (2002). Dogs, Ducks, Deer and Diet: New Stable Isotope Evidence on Early Mesolithic Dogs from the Vale of Pickering, North-east England. Journal of Archaeological Science 29:327-333.

Schulting, R.J. and M.P. Richards (2002). The wet, wild and the domesticated: The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition on the West coast of Scotland. European Journal of Archaeology 5:147-189.

Whittle, A., Bartosiewicz, L., Boric, D., Pettitt, P. and M.P. Richards (2002). In the beginning: new radiocarbon dates for the Early Neolithic in northern Serbia and south-east Hungary. Antaeus 25:20-30.

Richards, M.P., Fuller, B.F., and R.E.M. Hedges (2001). Sulphur isotopic variation in ancient bone collagen from Europe: implications for human palaeodiet, residence mobility, and modern pollutant studies, Earth and Planetary Science Letters 191(3-4): 185-190. [pdf]

Richards, M.P. , Pettitt, P.B., Stiner, M.C., and E. Trinkaus (2001). Stable isotope evidence for increasing dietary breadth in the European mid-Upper Paleolithic, The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 98:6528-6532.

Richards, M.P., Hedges, R.E.M., Walton, I., Stoddart, S., and C. Malone (2001). Neolithic Diet at the Brochtorff Circle, Malta. European Journal of Archaeology 4(2):253-262.

Schulting, R.J. and M.P. Richards (2001). New palaeodietary and AMS dating evidence from the Breton Mesolithic cemeteries of Téviec and Höedic. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 20: 314-344.

Richards, M.P., Pettitt, P.B., Trinkaus, E., Smith, F.H., Karavanic, I., and M. Paunovic (2000). Neanderthal diet at Vindija and Neanderthal predation: The evidence from stable isotopes. The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 97:7663-7666. [pdf]

Richards, M.P. and J.A. Sheridan (2000). New AMS dates on human bone from Mesolithic Oronsay. Antiquity 74:313-315.

Richards, M.P., Jacobi, R., Currant, A., Stringer, C., and R.E.M. Hedges (2000). Gough’s Cave and Sun Hole Cave human stable isotope values indicate a high animal protein diet in the British Upper Palaeolithic. Journal of Archaeological Science 27: 1-3.

Lillie, M., and M.P. Richards (2000). New radiocarbon dates and palaeodietary evidence from the Ukrainian Mesolithic. Journal of Archaeological Science 27:965-972.

Richards, M.P. and R.E.M. Hedges (1999). A Neolithic revolution? New evidence of diet in the British Neolithic. Antiquity 73: 891-897.

Richards, M.P. and R.E.M. Hedges (1999). Stable isotope evidence for similarities in the types of marine foods used by Late Mesolithic humans at sites along the Atlantic coast of Europe. Journal of Archaeological Science 26:717-722.

Richards, M.P., Molleson, T.I., Vogel, J.C., and R.E.M. Hedges (1998). Stable isotope analysis reveals variations in human diet at the Poundbury Camp Cemetery site. Journal of Archaeological Science 25:1247-1252.

Richards, M.P. and P.A. Mellars (1998). Stable isotopes and the seasonality of the Oronsay middens. Antiquity 72:178-184.

Richards, M.P. (1998). Bone stable isotope analysis: Reconstructing the diet of humans. In Whittle, A. and M. Wysocki, “Parc le Breos Cwm transepted long cairn, Gower, West Glamorgan: Date, contents and context”. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 64:139-182.

PUBLICATIONS: EDITED VOLUMES

Richards M.P. (in press) The early Neolithic in Britain; new insights from biomolecular archaeology. In Shepard, I. and G. Barclay (eds.) Scotland in Ancient Europe.

Richards, M.P. (2003) Explaining the dietary isotope evidence for the rapid adoption of the Neolithic in Britain. In Parker-Pearson, M. (ed.) Food, Culture and Identity in the Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. BAR International Series 1117:31-36.

Richards, M.P. and R.J. Schulting (2003) Characterising subsistence in Mesolithic Britain using stable isotope analysis. In Moore, J. and L. Bevan (eds.), Peopling the Mesolithic in a Northern Environment. BAR International Series 1157:119-128.

Richards, M.P. (in press). Stable isotope analysis of humans and fauna. In Mercer, R., and Healy, F. (eds.) The Hambledon Hill Site, English Heritage (in press).

Price, T.D., and M.P. Richards (in press). Elemental and isotopic analyses of Skateholm bone. In Larsson, L. (ed.) The Skateholm project.

Richards, M.P. and J. A. Pearson (in press) Stable isotope evidence of diet at Çatalhöyük. Chapter contribution to forthcoming Catalhöyük Volume 2: Specialist reports.

Richards, M.P. and R.E.M. Hedges (in press) Stable isotope evidence of past human diet at the sites of Gerani, Armenoi and Mycenae. In Martlew, H. and Y. Tzedakis (editors) Minoans and Mycenaeans: Flavours of their Times.

Richards, M.P. and E. Koch (2001) Neolitisk kost: Analyser af kvælstof-isotopen 15N i menneskeskeletter fra yngre stenalder. Aarbøger for nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historie 1999:7-17

Richards, M.P. (2001) Stable isotope analysis of the human remains. In Arnold, C.J. (ed.) Excavation of ‘Ty Newydd’, Ynys Enlli (Bardsey Island), Gwynedd. Archaeologi Cambrensis vol. CXLVII. Cambridge, U.K. Pgs. 119-121.

van Klinken, G.J., Richards, M.P., and R.E.M. Hedges (2000) An overview of causes for stable isotopic variations in past European human populations: Environmental, ecophysiological, and cultural effects. In Ambrose, S. and Katzenberg, A. (eds.). Biogeochemical approaches to palaeodietary analysis. Kluwer Academic/Plenum publishers, New York. Pgs. 39-63.

Richards, M.P. (2000). Human and faunal stable isotope analyses from Goat’s Hole and Foxhole Caves, Gower. In Aldhouse-Green, S. (ed.), Paviland Cave and the ‘Red Lady’: a definitive report. University of Wales College, Newport, and National Museums and Galleries of Wales, Newport. Pgs. 71-75.

Richards, M.P. (2000). Human consumption of plant foods in the British Neolithic; direct evidence from bone stable isotopes. In Fairbairn, A. (ed.) Plants in Neolithic Britain and Beyond. Oxford, Oxbow Monograph. Pgs. 123-135.

Schulting, R.J. and M.P. Richards (2000). Mesolithic subsistence and seasonality: the use of stable isotopes. In Young, R. (ed.) Current Research on the Mesolithic of Britain and Ireland, University of Leicester Press, Leicester, U.K. Pgs. 55-65.

Richards, M.P. and R.J. Schulting (2000). Stable isotopes of human remains from the Severn Estuary. In Bell, M. (ed.) Prehistoric Intertidal Archaeology in the Welsh Severn Estuary, Council for British Archaeology Publication. Pgs. 70-71.

Richards, M.P. and R.E.M. Hedges (1999). How chemical analysis of human bones can tell us the diets of people who lived in the past (and other contributions), in Tzedakis, Y., and H. Martlew (eds.) Flavours of their times, food and drink in Minoan and Mycenaean times. Greek Ministry of Culture, General Directorate of Antiquities, Kapon Publishers, Athens, Greece.

Richards, M.P. and G.J. van Klinken (1997). A survey of European human bone stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values. In Archaeological Sciences 1995. Sinclair, A.G.M., Slater, E.A., and J.A.J. Gowlett (eds.). Oxbow Monograph 64: 363-368.


PUBLICATIONS: NON-REFEREED CONTRIBUTIONS


1. Richards, M.P. (in press) Sampling procedures for bone chemistry. In Brickley, M. (ed.) Recording of Human Remains from Archaeological Sites. Institute of Field Archaeologists.

2. Richards, M.P. (in press) "Archaeometry and Antique Analysis: (d) Organic and Biological Materials" in Townsend, A. (ed.) The Handbook of Analytical Science 2nd Edition.

3. Richards, M.P. (2003) The Turin shroud. In Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia. Microsoft and Webster’s Multimedia.

4. Kuzmin, Y.V., Yoneda, M., and M.P. Richards (2000). Paleodiet of the Early-Holocene population in Primorye, Russian Far East: Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope data of human bone collagen, Current Research in the Pleistocene, 17:128-131.

5. Richards, M.P. (2002) Science Diary: Collagen, isotopes and changing diets, Current Archaeology 180: 526-527.

6. Richards, M.P. (2002) Invited book review of Jones, M., The Molecule Hunt, British Archaeology 65: 30.

7. Richards, M.P. (2001) Science and Archaeology. Invited contribution for the BBC Science web page.

8. Richards, M.P. (2000) Stable isotope analysis in archaeology: A short introduction. Invited contribution for The Archaeologist (Institute of Field Archaeologists (IFA), U.K.).

9. Richards, M.P. and R.J. Schulting (2000) Caractérisation de la subsistence pendant le mésolithique britannique. Nouvelles informations d’après l’analyse des isotopes stables. Invited contribution for Les Nouvelles de l’Archeologie 80:20-26.

10. Richards, M.P. (1999). Conference report: Archaeological Sciences 1999 (Bristol, U.K.) and the European Association of Archaeologists (Bournemouth, U.K.). Society for Archaeological Science Bulletin 22:6-7.

11. Richards, M.P. (1996). A report on excavations at the Medieval moated site at Kidlington Pocket Park. South Midlands Archaeology no. 26.

12. Richards, M.P. (1996). The puzzle over Neolithic diet. British Archaeology 12:6.

13. Huntley, D.J. and M.P. Richards (1997). The age of the Diring Yuriakh archaeological site. Ancient TL 15(2-3):48-49.

     
     
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