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Overview

Stanley H. Ambrose is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities.

Their work focuses on several subfields, including Archeology, Anthropology, Paleontology, Atmospheric Science, and Genetics. Major topics addressed in their publications are Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology, Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Paleopathology and ancient diseases, Archaeology and Rock Art Studies, and Forensic and Genetic Research.

Stanley H. Ambrose has contributed to research published in a variety of venues. These include Quaternary Science Reviews, Scientific Reports, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Nature.

Selected recent papers demonstrate the breadth of their research interests and collaboration:

  • Ancient DNA and deep population structure in sub-Saharan African foragers, 2022, Nature
  • Spatial variation in bioavailable strontium isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr) in Kenya and northern Tanzania: Implications for ecology, paleoanthropology, and archaeology, 2020, Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology
  • Early pastoral mobility and seasonality in Kenya assessed through stable isotope analysis, 2020, Journal of Archaeological Science
  • Integrative analysis of DNA, macroscopic remains and stable isotopes of dog coprolites to reconstruct community diet, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Social and environmental factors influencing dietary choices among Dawenkou culture sites, Late Neolithic China, 2020, The Holocene

The scientist frequently collaborates with others, with notable co-authors including Lenka Varadzinová, Ladislav Varadzin, Andrew M. Zipkin, Fredrick K. Manthi, and Anneke Janzen.

Best Publications

  • Preparation and characterization of bone and tooth collagen for isotopic analysis

    Stanley H. Ambrose

  • Experimental Evidence for the Relationship of the Carbon Isotope Ratios of Whole Diet and Dietary Protein to Those of Bone Collagen and Carbonate

    Stanley H. Ambrose;Lynette Norr

  • Paleolithic Technology and Human Evolution

    Stanley H. Ambrose

  • Isotopic analysis of paleodiet : Methodological and interpretive considerations

    S. H. Ambrose

  • Effects of diet, climate and physiology on nitrogen isotope abundances in terrestrial foodwebs

    Stanley H. Ambrose

  • Late Pleistocene human population bottlenecks, volcanic winter, and differentiation of modern humans☆

    Stanley H. Ambrose

  • Systematic Butchery by Plio/Pleistocene Hominids at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

    Henry T. Bunn;Ellen M. Kroll;Stanley H. Ambrose;Anna K. Behrensmeyer

  • The isotopic ecology of east african mammals

    Stanley H. Ambrose;Michael J. DeNiro

  • Meanings of Environmental Terms

    D. L. Johnson;S. H. Ambrose;T. J. Bassett;M. L. Bowen

  • Chronology of the Later Stone Age and Food Production in East Africa

    Stanley H. Ambrose

  • Isotopic analysis of paleodiets: methodological and interpretive considerations

    S.H. Ambrose

  • The Seasonal Mobility Model for Prehistoric Herders in the South-western Cape of South Africa Assessed by Isotopic Analysis of Sheep Tooth Enamel

    Marie Balasse;Marie Balasse;Stanley H. Ambrose;Stanley H. Ambrose;Andrew B. Smith;T.Douglas Price

  • Stable isotopic analysis of human diet in the Marianas Archipelago, Western Pacific

    Stanley H. Ambrose;Brian M. Butler;Douglas B. Hanson;Rosalind L. Hunter-Anderson

  • Stable carbon isotopic evidence for differences in the dietary origin of bone cholesterol, collagen and apatite: implications for their use in palaeodietary reconstruction

    Susan Jim;Stanley H. Ambrose;Richard P. Evershed

  • Reconstruction of African human diet using bone collagen carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios

    Stanley H. Ambrose;Michael J. DeNiro

  • Status and gender differences in diet at Mound 72, Cahokia, revealed by isotopic analysis of bone

    Stanley H. Ambrose;Jane Buikstra;Harold W. Krueger

  • Long-distance stone transport and pigment use in the earliest Middle Stone Age

    Alison S. Brooks;Alison S. Brooks;John E. Yellen;John E. Yellen;Richard Potts;Anna K. Behrensmeyer

  • Asa Issie, Aramis and the origin of Australopithecus

    Tim D. White;Tim D. White;Giday WoldeGabriel;Berhane Asfaw;Stan Ambrose

  • Small Things Remembered: Origins of Early Microlithic Industries in Sub‐Saharan Africa

    Stanley H. Ambrose

  • Macrovertebrate paleontology and the pliocene habitat of ardipithecus ramidus

    Tim D. White;Stanley H. Ambrose;Gen Suwa;Denise F. Su

  • Determining sheep birth seasonality by analysis of tooth enamel oxygen isotope ratios: The Late Stone Age site of Kasteelberg (South Africa)

    Marie Balasse;Andrew B. Smith;Stanley H. Ambrose;Steven R. Leigh

  • Bone chemistry and bioarchaeology

    Stanley H. Ambrose;John Krigbaum

  • Biogeochemical approaches to paleodietary analysis

    Stanley H. Ambrose;M. Anne Katzenberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Giday WoldeGabriel
Giday WoldeGabriel Los Alamos National Laboratory
Martin Williams
Martin Williams University of Adelaide
Richard P. Evershed
Richard P. Evershed University of Bristol
Gen Suwa
Gen Suwa University of Tokyo
William K. Hart
William K. Hart Miami University
Paul R. Renne
Paul R. Renne Berkeley Geochronology Center
Michael J. Deniro
Michael J. Deniro University of California, Santa Barbara
Craig C. Lundstrom
Craig C. Lundstrom University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Alan L. Deino
Alan L. Deino Berkeley Geochronology Center
Thure E. Cerling
Thure E. Cerling University of Utah

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