Re-evaluating Scythian lifeways: Isotopic analysis of diet and mobility in Iron Age Ukraine

• Alicia R. Ventresca Miller ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ventrescamiller@shh.mpg.de, avenmil@umich.edu

  Affiliations Department of Anthropology and Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Department of Archaeology, Stable Isotope Group, Jena, Germany, Graduate School of Human Development in Landscapes, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany, Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4148-4016

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• James Johnson,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America

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• Sergey Makhortykh,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Archaeology of National Academy of Sciences Ukraine (NUAS), Kyiv, Ukraine

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• Claudia Gerling,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Integrative Prehistory and Archaeological Science, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

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• Ludmilla Litvinova,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Archaeology of National Academy of Sciences Ukraine (NUAS), Kyiv, Ukraine

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• Svetlana Andrukh,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Zaporizhzhya National University, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine

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• Gennady Toschev,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Zaporizhzhya National University, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine

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• Jana Zech,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology and Museum of Anthropological Archaeology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

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• Petrus le Roux,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Geological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5930-4995

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• Cheryl Makarewicz,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Graduate School of Human Development in Landscapes, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany, Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany

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• Nicole Boivin,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Department of Archaeology, Stable Isotope Group, Jena, Germany, School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, Smithsonian Institution, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Patrick Roberts

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Department of Archaeology, Stable Isotope Group, Jena, Germany, School of Social Science, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

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