The Bioarchaeology of Migration in the Ancient Mediterranean

Meta-Analysis of Radiogenic (87Sr/86Sr) Isotope Ratios

Authors

  • Thomas P. Leppard Florida State University
  • Carmen Esposito Queen’s University Belfast
  • Massimiliano Esposito Independent scholar

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jma.18784

Keywords:

bioarchaeology, isotope analysis, migration, mobility, prehistoric archaeology

Abstract

The Mediterranean is often regarded as characterized by high levels of human mobility and migration, which are in turn considered to have driven large-scale cultural effects. However, this supposition is problematic, in that it relies on various types of proxy for human movement, rather than on direct bioarchaeological evidence. Accordingly, in this study we attempt to quantify diachronic Mediterranean mobility and migration by undertaking the first meta-analysis of the burgeoning radiogenic isotope datasets now available from the Mediterranean. We gathered 87Sr/ 86Sr data derived from funerary populations from the Neolithic to the late Roman period. We imposed a data-hygiene regime, discarding low-quality, methodologically idiosyncratic, or other potentially erroneous data; this resulted in a cleansed and trimmed dataset (n = 899). Within this dataset, we find that mean rates of post-juvenile migration are relatively low. Utilizing the methodologies specific to individual studies, the mean nonlocal rate is 9.57%. Imposing a standard methodology on the most statistically robust data (resulting in n = 702) allows us to recompute a mean nonlocal rate of 5.84%. In both the data as originally reported and as recomputed, we detect comparatively higher levels of migration in the period 7000–3500 BC, followed by decreasing levels of migration in the later Holocene. We discuss the implications of these results for how we understand longterm cultural and behavioral change in the Mediterranean.

Author Biographies

  • Thomas P. Leppard, Florida State University

    Thomas P. Leppard (PhD, 2013, Brown University) is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Florida State University and co-directs the Landscape Archaeology of Southwest Sardinia project. His research is primarily concerned with the transition to complex social organization.

  • Carmen Esposito, Queen’s University Belfast

    Carmen Esposito (MPhil, 2017, University of Cambridge) is a PhD candidate at Queen’s University, Belfast working on mobility in Iron Age central Italy. She is interested in Italian prehistory, especially the Bronze Age and early Iron Age, with a particular focus on the study of material culture, osteoarchaeology, and isotope ratio analyses.

  • Massimiliano Esposito, Independent scholar

    Massimiliano Esposito (PhD, 2018, Imperial College London) defended his thesis in Harmonic Analysis regarding generalization of the Weyl quantization scheme. His primary research concerns random matrices and their applications in mathematics and artificial intelligence. He has subsidiary interests in statistics and relevant archaeological applications.

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Leppard, T. P., Esposito, C., & Esposito, M. (2021). The Bioarchaeology of Migration in the Ancient Mediterranean: Meta-Analysis of Radiogenic (87Sr/86Sr) Isotope Ratios. Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, 33(2), 211-241. https://doi.org/10.1558/jma.18784