Thousands of liberated Africans died on a remote island after the British Navy freed them. We now know wher...

Thousands of enslaved Africans were liberated from slave ships and died on the island of St. Helena around 200 years ago. A ...
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Thousands of liberated Africans died on a remote Atlantic island. We now know where they came from.

Thousands of enslaved Africans were liberated from slave ships and died on the island of St. Helena. A new chemical analysis ...
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They escaped the slave trade to an island in the middle of the ocean. Almost two centuries later, science is revealing their life histories.

Saint Helena is a tiny volcanic island more than 1,000 miles off the coast of Africa. Between 1840 and 1863, the British Royal Navy brought nearly 27,000 Africans from captured illegal slave ships to ...
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Strontium isotope abundances shed light on early ocean acidification

Scientists from Northwestern have published new findings on the factors that triggered the oceanic anoxic event (OAE) 1a in the Early Cretaceous Period about120 million years ago. The unprecedented ...
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New stable isotope map of Angola helps archaeologists trace individual life histories across the African Diaspora

Archaeologists at UC Santa Cruz used predictive modeling to map strontium isotope ratios across all of modern-day Angola, a region in Southwest Africa that was once a major hub for the transatlantic ...
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Strontium isotope map of Sub-Saharan Africa: A powerful tool for archaeology, forensics and wildlife conservation

A team of researchers led by UC Santa Cruz recently released a sophisticated new map that reveals, for the first time, the unique "geologic fingerprints" for most of the African continent. The map ...
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Strontium isotope maps are disturbed by agricultural lime

Strontium isotopes are frequently used in archaeological studies to establish the provenance and migration history of prehistoric people and artifacts. Many of these studies may be based on incorrect ...
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Strontium isotopes can map monarch butterfly migrations and help conservation efforts

The eastern North American population of monarch butterflies are famous for their annual, multi-generational, round-trip migration from the oyamel fir forests of Central Mexico through the United ...
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New strontium isotope map of Sub-Saharan Africa is a powerful tool for archaeology, forensics, and wildlife conservation

A team of researchers has mapped predicted bioavailable strontium isotope ratios across all of Sub-Saharan Africa. Archaeologists, conservation scientists, and forensics experts will now be able to ...
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Strontium isotope maps are disturbed by agricultural lime

Strontium isotopes are frequently used in archaeological studies to establish the provenance and migration history of prehistoric people and artifacts. Many of these studies may be based on incorrect ...