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- Coutu, Ashley N.Univ York, Dept Archaeol, BioArCh, York, N Yorkshire, England.;Univ Cape Town, Dept Archaeol, Rondebosch, South Africa. (författare)
Mapping the Elephants of the 19th Century East African Ivory Trade with a Multi-Isotope Approach
- Artikel/kapitelEngelska2016
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- 2016-10-19
- Public Library of Science (PLoS),2016
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- LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:uu-308646
- https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-308646URI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163606DOI
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- East African elephants have been hunted for their ivory for millennia but the nineteenth century witnessed strongly escalating demand from Europe and North America. It has been suggested that one consequence was that by the 1880s elephant herds along the coast had become scarce, and to meet demand, trade caravans trekked farther into interior regions of East Africa, extending the extraction frontier. The steady decimation of elephant populations coupled with the extension of trade networks have also been claimed to have triggered significant ecological and socio-economic changes that left lasting legacies across the region. To explore the feasibility of using an isotopic approach to uncover a 'moving frontier' of elephant extraction, we constructed a baseline isotope data set (delta C-13, delta N-15, delta O-18 and Sr-87/Sr-86) for historic East African elephants known to have come from three distinct regions (coastal, Rift Valley, and inland Lakes). Using the isotope results with other climate data and geographical mapping tools, it was possible to characterise elephants from different habitats across the region. This baseline data set was then used to provenance elephant ivory of unknown geographical provenance that was exported from East Africa during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to determine its likely origin. This produced a better understanding of historic elephant geography in the region, and the data have the potential to be used to provenance older archaeological ivories, and to inform contemporary elephant conservation strategies.
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- Lee-Thorp, JuliaUniv Oxford, Res Lab Archaeol, Oxford, England. (författare)
- Collins, Matthew J.Univ York, Dept Archaeol, BioArCh, York, N Yorkshire, England. (författare)
- Lane, Paul J.Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia,Univ Witwatersrand, Sch Geog Archaeol & Environm Sci, ZA-2050 Johannesburg, South Africa.(Swepub:uu)paula859 (författare)
- Univ York, Dept Archaeol, BioArCh, York, N Yorkshire, England.;Univ Cape Town, Dept Archaeol, Rondebosch, South Africa.Univ Oxford, Res Lab Archaeol, Oxford, England. (creator_code:org_t)
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- Ingår i:PLOS ONE: Public Library of Science (PLoS)11:101932-6203
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