Strontium: a Standard for Understanding Social Organization

Subject Areas : Prehistoric Archaeology

Tahereh Azizipour ¹ , Seyed Ali Asghar Mirfatah ² , Mousa Sabzi ³

1 - Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht Branch, Marvdasht, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Archaeology, Islamic Azad University Abhar branch, Abhar, Iran.
3 - Ph.D. Candidate in Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2023-07-13 Accepted : 2023-07-13 Published : 2010-08-23

Keywords: Livelihood, Social System, strontium, Valiran, Tooth,

Abstract :

Archaeologists always pay attention to human and animal remains to understand manners of living in prehistoric societies. Rate concentration of Strontium in human skeletons from prehistoric societies is one of sources to study these societies. Rate concentration of this element in archeological skeletons gives us information about social conditions of prehistoric societies’ inhabitants. For many years, archaeological human skeletons had been studied for understanding social situation in human societies.