Chapter 1 Unanswered Questions in the Evolution of Biomineralisation

Chapter 2 Complexities of the Ancient Mortuary Rite of Cremation: An Osteoarchaeological Conundrum

Chapter 3 Bones, Rocks, and Flames: Mineralogy and Petrology of Slags and Cremated Bones from Ritual Immolation Sites in Tyrol

Chapter 4 Radiocarbon Dating of Cremated Bones: An Overview

Chapter 5 Mineralogic Characterisation of Archaeological Bone

Chapter 7 Determination of Geo-dependent Bioavailable 87 Sr/ 86 Sr Isotopic Ratios for Archaeological Sites from the Inn Valley (Austria): A Model Calculation

Chapter 8 Provenancing Bronze: Exclusion, Inclusion, Uniqueness, and Occam’s Razor

Chapter 9 Linking Oxygen Isotopes of Animal-Bone Phosphate with Altimetry: Results from Archaeological Finds from a Transect in the Alps

Chapter 10 Oxygen and Hydrogen Stable Isotopes in Earth’s Hydrologic Cycle

Chapter 11 Toward an Integrated Isotope Zooarchaeology

Chapter 12 Assigning Elephant Ivory with Stable Isotopes

Chapter 13 Towards Predicting Places of Origin from Isotopic Fingerprints: A Case Study on the Mobility of People in the Central European Alps