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Overview

Tamsin C. O'Connell is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Paleontology, Genetics, Ecology, Archaeology, and Geography, Planning and Development.

Their scientific contributions cover a range of topics such as Archaeology and ancient environmental studies, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies, Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies, Forensic and Genetic Research, Yersinia bacterium, plague, ectoparasites research, and Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology.

Recent publications authored or co-authored by Tamsin C. O'Connell include:

  • Genetic history of Cambridgeshire before and after the Black Death, 2024, Science Advances
  • Isotope data from amino acids indicate Darwin's ground sloth was not an herbivore, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Lipid residues in pottery from the Indus Civilisation in northwest India, 2020, Journal of Archaeological Science
  • Feeding the herds: Stable isotope analysis of animal diet and its implication for understanding social organisation in the Indus Civilisation, Northwest India, 2020, Archaeological Research in Asia
  • Crop water status from plant stable carbon isotope values: A test case for monsoonal climates, 2021, The Holocene

Tamsin C. O'Connell frequently publishes in outlets such as Scientific Reports, Journal of Archaeological Science, PLoS ONE, Nature Human Behaviour, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Frequent co-authors in their body of work include:

  • Sarah A. Inskip
  • Craig Cessford
  • Alice Rose
  • John Robb
  • Cameron A. Petrie

Best Publications

  • Collagen turnover in the adult femoral mid‐shaft: Modeled from anthropogenic radiocarbon tracer measurements

    Robert E.M. Hedges;John G. Clement;C. David L. Thomas;Tamsin C. O'Connell;Tamsin C. O'Connell

  • Nitrogen balance and δ15N: why you're not what you eat during nutritional stress

    Benjamin T. Fuller;James L. Fuller;Nancy E. Sage;David A. Harris

  • The diet-body offset in human nitrogen isotopic values: A controlled dietary study

    T.C. O'Connell;C.J. Kneale;N. Tasevska;G.G.C. Kuhnle;G.G.C. Kuhnle

  • Investigations into the effect of diet on modern human hair isotopic values.

    T.C. O'Connell;R.E.M. Hedges

  • Isotopic Comparison of Hair, Nail and Bone: Modern Analyses

    T.C. O'Connell;R.E.M. Hedges;M.A. Healey;A.H.R.W. Simpson

  • Nitrogen balance and δ15N: why you're not what you eat during pregnancy

    Benjamin T. Fuller;James L. Fuller;Nancy E. Sage;David A. Harris

  • Ancient Hybridization and an Irish Origin for the Modern Polar Bear Matriline

    Ceiridwen J. Edwards;Marc A. Suchard;Philippe Lemey;John J. Welch

  • Documenting the diet in ancient human populations through stable isotope analysis of hair.

    Stephen A. Macko;Michael H. Engel;Vladimir Andrusevich;Gert Lubec

  • Interpreting the expansion of sea fishing in medieval Europe using stable isotope analysis of archaeological cod bones

    James H. Barrett;David Orton;Cluny Johnstone;Jennifer Harland

  • Stable Isotope Analysis of Human and Faunal Remains from the Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Berinsfield, Oxfordshire: Dietary and Social Implications

    Karen L. Privat;Tamsin C. O'connell;Michael P. Richards

  • On the Use of Biomineral Oxygen Isotope Data to Identify Human Migrants in the Archaeological Record: Intra-Sample Variation, Statistical Methods and Geographical Considerations.

    Emma Lightfoot;Tamsin C. O’Connell

  • Isotopic Comparison of Hair and Bone: Archaeological Analyses

    T.C. O’Connell;R.E.M. Hedges

  • ‘Trophic’ and ‘source’ amino acids in trophic estimation: a likely metabolic explanation

    Tamsin O'Connell

  • Ancient mitochondrial DNA from hair.

    M.Thomas P Gilbert;M.Thomas P Gilbert;Andrew S Wilson;Michael Bunce;Anders J Hansen

  • Trans-Atlantic Slavery: Isotopic Evidence for Forced Migration to Barbados

    Hannes Schroeder;Tamsin C. O'Connell;Jane A. Evans;Kristrina A. Shuler

  • Stable isotopic evidence for diet at the Imperial Roman coastal site of Velia (1st and 2nd Centuries AD) in Southern Italy

    Oliver E. Craig;Marco Biazzo;Tamsin C. O'Connell;Peter Garnsey

  • The distinction between freshwater- and terrestrial-based diets: methodological concerns and archaeological applications of sulphur stable isotope analysis

    Karen L. Privat;Tamsin C. O'Connell;Robert E.M. Hedges

  • Ancient human parallel lineages within North America contributed to a coastal expansion

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  • The earliest evidence of millet as a staple crop: New light on neolithic foodways in North China

    Xinyi Liu;Martin K. Jones;Martin K. Jones;Zhijun Zhao;Guoxiang Liu

  • Hydrogen isotope ratios in animal body protein reflect trophic level

    Jennifer Birchall;Tamsin C. O'connell;Tamsin C. O'connell;Tim H. E. Heaton;Robert E. M. Hedges

  • Sex-specific foraging strategies and resource partitioning in the southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina).

    Rebecca Lewis;Tamsin C O'Connell;Tamsin C O'Connell;Mirtha Lewis;Claudio Campagna;Claudio Campagna

  • From necessity to choice: dietary revolutions in west China in the second millennium BC

    Xinyi Liu;Emma Lightfoot;Tamsin C. O’Connell;Hui Wang

  • Diet and mobility in early medieval bavaria: a study of carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes.

    Susanne Hakenbeck;Ellen McManus;Hans Geisler;Gisela Grupe

  • New chronology for Ksâr 'Akil (Lebanon) supports Levantine route of modern human dispersal into Europe

    Marjolein D. Bosch;Marcello A. Mannino;Amy L. Prendergast;Tamsin C. O’Connell

  • Research data supporting: "On the Use of Biomineral Oxygen Isotope Data to Identify Human Migrants in the Archaeological Record: Intra-Sample Variation, Statistical Methods and Geographical Considerations"

    Emma Lightfoot;Tamsin C. O'Connell

Frequent Co-Authors

Graeme Barker
Graeme Barker University of Cambridge
Gunter G.C. Kuhnle
Gunter G.C. Kuhnle University of Reading
Jean-Jacques Hublin
Jean-Jacques Hublin Collège de France
Johannes van der Plicht
Johannes van der Plicht University of Groningen
Paola Iacumin
Paola Iacumin University of Parma
Chris Hunt
Chris Hunt Liverpool John Moores University
Frank P. Wesselingh
Frank P. Wesselingh Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Matthew J. Collins
Matthew J. Collins University of Cambridge
Christopher J. Howe
Christopher J. Howe University of Cambridge
Nita G. Forouhi
Nita G. Forouhi University of Cambridge

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