Hairs in old books isotopically reconstruct the eating habits of early modern Japan
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-30617-0
Abstract: To complement literature-based historical knowledge of the eating habits of 17th- and 18th-century Japan, we analysed carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios (δ13C and δ15N, respectively) of human hairs embedded in cover paper of Japanese books… read more here.
Keywords: hairs old; japan; book; 15n values ... See more keywords