Season of birth and sheep husbandry in late Roman and Medieval coastal Flanders: a pilot study using tooth enamel δ18O analysis

Arts & Humanities

• Tooth Enamel 100%
• Husbandry 80%
• Late Roman 70%
• Flanders 69%
• Late Medieval Period 53%
• Coast 48%
• Wool 32%
• Salt 26%
• Manipulation 18%
• Oxygen Isotope Analysis 18%
• Exploitation 17%
• Cattle Breeding 15%
• Early Historic 14%
• Early Roman Period 14%
• Grassland 13%
• Herding 13%
• Enamel 12%
• Reclamation 11%
• Drainage 11%
• Meat 10%
• Milk 10%
• Historical Periods 10%
• Sampling 10%
• Teeth 10%
• Belgium 9%
• Archaeological Evidence 9%
• Spring 9%
• Early Medieval Period 9%
• Estate 9%
• Onset 9%
• Economy 8%
• Middle Age 6%
• Economics 5%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• Medieval 66%
• enamel 65%
• sheep 65%
• tooth 53%
• wool 33%
• salt meadow 18%
• analysis 15%
• economy 15%
• parturition 14%
• Middle Ages 12%
• archaeological evidence 12%
• land reclamation 11%
• rearing 11%
• milk 10%
• saltmarsh 10%
• meat 10%
• coastal plain 10%
• cattle 10%
• breeding 9%
• oxygen isotope 9%
• grassland 8%
• dating 7%
• drainage 7%
• winter 6%
• economics 5%
• sampling 5%
• project 5%
• comparison 4%

Social Sciences

• exploitation 21%
• manipulation 21%
• middle ages 16%
• economy 14%
• Belgium 11%
• regime 8%
• management 5%
• economics 5%
• evidence 5%
• time 4%