Erratum: Quantitative reconstruction of weaning ages in archaeological human populations using bone collagen nitrogen isotope ratios and approximate bayesian computation (PLoS ONE (2014) 8:8 (e72327) (DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0072327));Quantitative Reconstruction of Weaning Ages in Archaeological Human Populations Using Bone Collagen Nitrogen Isotope Ratios and Approximate Bayesian Computation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Tsutaya, Takumi ^a   Yoneda, Minoru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; NITROGEN 15;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BONE LEVEL; BONE TURNOVER; BREAST FEEDING; ETHNOGRAPHY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOLOCENE; ISOTOPE LABELING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WEANING;

HOMINIDAE;

ADULT; BAYES THEOREM; BONE AND BONES; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLLAGEN; FEMALE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; WEANING;

EID: 84883172182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119778     Document Type: Erratum

References (92)

1. Cunningham AS (1995) Breastfeeding: adaptive behavior for child health and longevity. In: Stuart-Macadam P, Dettwyler KA, editors, Breastfeeding: biocultural perspectives, New York: Aldine de Gruyter. 243-264.
2. Kramer MS, Kakuma R, (2004) The optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding: a systematic review. Ad Exp Med Biol 554: 63-77.
3. Dettwyler KA, Fishman C, (1992) Infant feeding practices and growth. Annu Rev Anthropol 21: 171-204.
4. Katzenberg MA, Herring D, Saunders SR, (1996) Weaning and infant mortality: evaluating the skeletal evidence. Yearb Phys Anthropol 39: 177-199.
5. Lewis M (2007) The bioarchaeology of children: perspectives from biological and forensic anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
6. Fildes V (1995) The culture and biology of breastfeeding: an historical review of western Europe. In: Stuart-Macadam P, Dettwyler K, editors, Breastfeeding: biocultural perspectives, New York: Aldine de Gruyter. 101-126.
7. Ford CS (1964) A comparative study of human reproduction. Connecticut: Human Relation Area Files Press.
8. Maher V, editor (1992) The anthropology of breast-feeding: natural law or social construct. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
9. Bongaarts J, (1978) A framework for analyzing the proximate determinants of fertility. Popul Dev Rev 4: 105-132.
10. Bongaarts J, (1982) The fertility-inhibiting effects of the intermediate fertility variables. Stud Family Plann 13: 179-189.
11. Wood JW (1994) Dynamics of human reproduction: biology, biometry, demography. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.
12. Ellison PT (1995) Breastfeeding, fertility, and maternal condition. In: Stuart-Macadam P, Dettwyler KA, editors, Breastfeeding: biocultural perspectives, New York: Aldine de Gruyter. 305-345.
13. McNeilly AS, (2001) Lactational control of reproduction. Reprod Fert Develop 13: 583-590.
14. Valeggia C, Ellison PT, (2009) Interactions between metabolic and reproductive functions in the resumption of postpartum fecundity. Am J Hum Biol 21: 559-566.
15. Bogin B, (1997) Evolutionary hypotheses for human childhood. Yearb Phys Anthropol 104: 63-89.
16. Hawkes K, O'connell JF, Blurton Jones NG, Alvarez H, Charnov EL, (1998) Grandmothering, menopause, and the evolution of human life histories. Proc Nat Acad Sci 95: 1336-1339.
17. Humphrey LT, (2010) Weaning behaviour in human evolution. Semin Cell Dev Biol 21: 453-461.
18. Kennedy GE, (2005) From the ape's dilemma to the weanling's dilemma: early weaning and its evolutionary context. J Hum Evol 48: 123-145.
19. Lee PC, (1996) The meanings of weaning: Growth, lactation, and life history. Evol Anthropol 5: 87-96.
20. Sellen DW, (2007) Evolution of infant and young child feeding: implications for contemporary public health. Annu Rev Nutr 27: 123-148.
21. Dittmann K, Grupe G, (2000) Biochemical and palaeopathological investigations on weaning and infant mortality in the early Middle Ages. Anthrop Anz 58: 345-355.
22. Fogel ML, Tuross N, Owsley DW, (1989) Nitrogen isotope tracers of human lactation in modern and archaeological populations. In: Annual Report of the Director of the Geophysical Laboratory, Washington: Carnegie Institution, volume 88: 111-117.
23. Herring DA, Saunders SR, Katzenberg MA, (1998) Investigating the weaning process in past populations. Am J Phys Anthropol 105: 425-439.
24. Richards MP, Mays S, Fuller BT, (2002) Stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values of bone and teeth reflect weaning age at the Medieval Wharram Percy site, Yorkshire, UK. Am J Phys Anthropol 119: 205-210.
25. White CD, Schwarcz HP, (1994) Temporal trends in stable isotopes for Nubian mummy tissues. Am J Phys Anthropol 93: 165-187.
26. Ambrose SH, Norr L (1993) Experimental evidence for the relationship of the carbon isotope ratios of whole diet and dietary protein to those of bone collagen and carbonate. In: Prehistoric human bone: archaeology at the molecular level, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. 1-37.
27. Tieszen LL, Fagre T (1993) Effect of diet quality and composition on the isotopic composition of respiratory CO2, bone collagen, bioapatite, and soft tissues. In: Molecular archaeology of prehistoric human bone. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. 121-155.
28. Fuller BT, Fuller JL, Sage NE, Harris DA, O'Connell TC, et al. (2004) Nitrogen balance and δ15N: why you're not what you eat during pregnancy. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom 18: 2889-2896.
29. Fuller BT, Fuller JL, Harris DA, Hedges REM, (2006) Detection of breastfeeding and weaning in modern human infants with carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios. Am J Phys Anthropol 129: 279-293.
30. Bocherens H, Drucker D, (2003) Trophic level isotopic enrichment of carbon and nitrogen in bone collagen: case studies from recent and ancient terrestrial ecosystems. Int J Osteoarchaeol 13: 46-53.
31. Minagawa M, Wada E, (1984) Stepwise enrichment of δ15N along food chains: further evidence and the relation between δ15N and animal age. Geochim Cosmochim Ac 48: 1135-1140.
32. Schoeninger MJ, DeNiro MJ, (1984) Nitrogen and carbon isotopic composition of bone collagen from marine and terrestrial animals. Geochim Cosmochim Ac 48: 625-639.
33. Scheuer L, Black S (2000) Developmental juvenile osteology. New York: Academic Press.
34. Schurr MR, (1997) Stable nitrogen isotopes as evidence for the age of weaning at the Angel site: a comparison of isotopic and demographic measures of weaning age. J Archaeol Sci 24: 919-927.
35. Millard AR (2000) A model for the effect of weaning on nitrogen isotope ratios in humans. In: Goodfriend GA, Collins MJ, Macko SA, Wehmiller JF, editors, Perspectives in amino acid and protein geochemistry, New York: Oxford University Press. 51-59.
36. Bryant FJ, Loutit JF, (1964) The entry of strontium-90 into human bone. Proc Roy Soc Lond B Bio 159: 449-465.
37. Rivera J, (1965) human bone metabolism inferred from fall-out investigations. Nature 207: 1330-1332.
38. Hedges REM, Clement JG, Thomas CDL, O'Connell TC, (2007) Collagen turnover in the adult femoral mid-shaft: modeled from anthropogenic radiocarbon tracer measurements. Am J Phys Anthropol 133: 808-816.
39. Szulc P, Seeman E, Delmas PD, (2000) Biochemical measurements of bone turnover in children and adolescents. Osteoporos Int 11: 281-294.
40. Waters-Rist AL, Katzenberg MA, (2010) The effect of growth on stable nitrogen isotope ratios in subadult bone collagen. Int J Osteoarchaeol 20: 172-191.
41. Dupras TL, Schwarcz HP, Fairgrieve SI, (2001) Infant feeding and weaning practices in Roman Egypt. Am J Phys Anthropol 115: 204-212.
42. Keenleyside A, Schwarcz H, Stirling L, Lazreg NB, (2009) Stable isotopic evidence for diet in a Roman and Late Roman population from Leptiminus, Tunisia. J Archaeol Sci 36: 51-63.
43. R Core Team (2013) R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria.
44. Fratzl P, Gupta HS, Paschalis EP, Roschger P, (2004) Structure and mechanical quality of the collagen-mineral nano-composite in bone. J Mater Chem 14: 2115-2123.
45. Glimcher MJ, (2006) Bone: nature of the calcium phosphate crystals and cellular, structural, and physical chemical mechanisms in their formation. Rev Miner Geochem 64: 223-282.
46. Papworth DG, Vennart J, (1984) The uptake and turnover of 90Sr in the human skeleton. Phys Med Biol 29: 1045-1061.
47. Rho JY, Kuhn-Spearing L, Zioupos P, (1998) Mechanical properties and the hierarchical structure of bone. Med Eng Phys 20: 92-102.
48. Teitelbaum SL, (2000) Bone resorption by osteoclasts. Science 289: 1504-1508.
49. Ruffoni D, Fratzl P, Roschger P, Klaushofer K, Weinkamer R, (2007) The bone mineralization density distribution as a fingerprint of the mineralization process. Bone 40: 1308-1319.
50. Mitchell HH, Hamilton TS, Steggerda FR, Bean HW, (1945) The chemical composition of the adult human body and its bearing on the boichemistry of growth. J Biol Chem 158: 625-637.
51. Leggett RW, Eckerman KF, Williams LR, (1982) Strontium-90 in bone: a case study in age-dependent dosimetric modeling. Health Physics 43: 307-322.
52. Beaumont MA, (2010) Approximate Bayesian computation in evolution and ecology. Annu Rev Ecol Evol Syst 41: 379-406.
53. Bertorelle G, Benazzo A, Mona S, (2010) ABC as a flexible framework to estimate demography over space and time: some cons, many pros. Mol Ecol 19: 2609-2625.
54. Csilléry K, Blum MGB, Gaggiotti OE, François O, (2010) Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) in practice. Trends Ecol Evol 25: 410-418.
55. Beaumont MA, Zhang W, Balding DJ, (2002) Approximate Bayesian computation in population genetics. Genetics 162: 2025-2035.
56. Leuenberger C, Wegmann D, (2010) Bayesian computation and model selection without likelihoods. Genetics 184: 243-252.
57. Marjoram P, Molitor J, Plagnol V, Tavare S, (2003) Markov chain Monte Carlo without likelihoods. Proc Nat Acad Sci 100: 15324-15328.
58. Beaumont MA, Cornuet JM, Marin JM, Robert CP, (2009) Adaptive approximate Bayesian computation. Biometrika 96: 983-990.
59. Sisson SA, Fan Y, Tanaka MM, (2007) Sequential Monte Carlo without likelihoods. Proc Nat Acad Sci 104: 1760-1765.
60. Toni T, Welch D, Strelkowa N, Ipsen A, Stumpf MPH, (2009) Approximate Bayesian computation scheme for parameter inference and model selection in dynamical systems. J R Soc Interface 6: 187-202.
61. Tsutaya T (2013) WARN: weaning age reconstruction with nitrogen isotope analysis.
62. Howcroft R, Eriksson G, Lidén K, (2012) Conformity in diversity? Isotopic investigations of infant feeding practices in two Iron Age populations from southern Öland, Sweden. Am J Phys Anthropol 149: 217-230.
63. Nitsch EK, Humphrey LT, Hedges REM, (2011) Using stable isotope analysis to examine the effect of economic change on breastfeeding practices in Spitalfields, London, UK. Am J Phys Anthropol 146: 619-628.
64. Stenhouse MJ, Baxter MS (1979) The uptake of bomb 14C in humans. In: Berger R, Suess HE, editors, Radiocarbon dating: proceedings of the ninth international conference Los Angeles and La Jolla. Berkeley: University of California Press, 324-341.
65. Parfitt AM, (2002) Misconceptions (2): turnover is always higher in cancellous than in cortical bone. Bone 30: 807-809.
66. Fildes V, (1982) The age of weaning in Britain 1500-1800. J Biosoc Sci 14: 223-240.
67. Fuller BT, Molleson TI, Harris DA, Gilmour LT, Hedges REM, (2006) Isotopic evidence for breast-feeding and possible adult dietary differences from Late/Sub-Roman Britain. Am J Phys Anthropol 129: 45-54.
68. Prowse TL, Saunders SR, Schwarcz HP, Garnsey P, Macchiarelli R, et al. (2008) Isotopic and dental evidence for infant and young child feeding practices in an Imperial Roman skeletal sample. Am J Phys Anthropol 137: 294-308.
69. Bogin B, (1999) Evolutionary perspective on human growth. Annu Rev Anthropol 28: 109-153.
70. Jay M, Fuller BT, Richards MP, Knüsel CJ, King SS, (2008) Iron Age breastfeeding practices in Britain: isotopic evidence from Wetwang Slack, East Yorkshire. Am J Phys Anthropol 136: 327-337.
71. Buikstra JE, Konigsberg LW, Bullington J, (1986) Fertility and the development of agriculture in the prehistoric Midwest. Am Antiquity 51: 528-546.
72. Larsen CS, (1995) Biological changes in human populations with agriculture. Annu Rev Anthropol 24: 185-213.
73. Molleson T, Jones K, Jones S, (1993) Dietary change and the effect of food preparation on microwear patterns in the Late Neolithic of abu Hureyra, northern Syria. J Hum Evol 24: 455-468.
74. Sellen DW, Smay DB, (2001) Relationship between subsistence and age at weaning in "preindustrial" societies. Hum Nat 12: 47-87.
75. de Kanashiro HC, Brown KH, de Romana GL, Lopez T, Black RE, (1990) Consumption of food and nutrients by infants in Huascar (Lima), Peru. Am J Clin Nutr 52: 995-1004.
76. Wani H (1999) Rinyu no shoku bunka. Tokyo: Chuo Hoki.
77. Beaumont J, Gledhill A, Lee-Thorp J, Montgomery J, (2013) Childhood diet: a closer examination of the evidence from dental tissues using stable isotope analysis of incremental human dentine. Archaeometry 55: 277-295.
78. Eerkens JW, Berget AG, Bartelink EJ, (2011) Estimating weaning and early childhood diet from serial micro-samples of dentin collagen. J Archaeol Sci 38: 3101-3111.
79. Wright LE, (2013) Examining childhood diets at Kaminaljuyu, Guatemala, through stable isotopic analysis of sequential enamel microsamples. Archaeometry 55: 113-133.
80. Humphrey LT, Dean MC, Jeffries TE, Penn M, (2008) Unlocking evidence of early diet from tooth enamel. Proc Nat Acad Sci 105: 6834-6839.
81. Gardner KS, Leventhal A, Cambra R, Bartelink EJ, Martinez A, (2011) Mothers and infants in the prehistoric Santa Clara Valley: what stable isotopes tell us about ancestral Ohlone weaning practices. SCA Proceedings 25: 1-14.
82. Duggleby SL, Jackson AA, (2002) Protein, amino acid and nitrogen metabolism during pregnancy: how might the mother meet the needs of her fetus? Curr Opin Clin Nutr 5: 503-509.
83. Katzenberg MA, Lovell NC, (1999) Stable isotope variation in pathological bone. Int J Osteoarchaeol 9: 316-324.
84. Schwarcz HP, Dupras TL, Fairgrieve SI, (1999) 15N enrichment in the Sahara: in search of a global relationship. Journal of Archaeological Science 26: 629-636.
85. Hull V, Simpson M, editors (1985) Breastfeeding child health and child spacing: cross-cultural perspectives. London: Croom Helm.
86. WHO (2008) Indicators for assessing infant and young child feeding practices: part 1 definitions. Geneva: World Health Organization.
87. Wand MP, Jones MC (1995) Kernel smoothing. London: Chapman and Hall/CRC.
88. Barry H, Paxson LM, (1971) Infancy and early childhood: cross-cultural codes 2. Ethnology 10: 466-508.
89. Sellen DW, (2001) Comparison of infant feeding patterns reported for nonindustrial populations with current recommendations. J Nutr 131: 2707-2715.
90. Mace R, Pagel M, (1994) The comparative method in anthropology. Curr Anthropol 35: 549-564.
91. Dettwyler KA, (2004) When to wean: biological versus cultural perspectives. Clin Obstet Gynecol 47: 712-723.
92. Nitsch EK, Humphrey LT, Hedges REM, (2010) The effect of parity status on δ15N: looking for the "pregnancy effect" in 18th and 19th century London. J Archaeol Sci 37: 3191-3199.