Olaf Nehlich is a post-doc in the Department of Human Evolution at the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. His research focuses on the application of carbon, nitrogen, sulphur and strontium isotope analysis of skeletal material for reconstructing patterns of life histories in ancient periods. Olaf is part of the Archaeological Science group which is under the supervision of Mike Richards.
General research interests:
- Biochemical turnover of bone tissue and collagen
- Reconstruction of palaeodiet and migration using biochemical techniques
- Influences of the geological subsoil on the isotopic pattern of bone collagen
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