Epoch Geochem

EPOCH GeoChem is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie multidisciplinary (archaeology, bioarchaeology, isotope geochemistry) project.

EPOCH GeoChem (Early POpulations in Cretan History: Investigating residential mobility in the eastern Mediterranean using isotope GeoChemistry) uses for the first time in this context, isotopic analyses of multiple chemical elements (i. e. strontium, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, sulphur and hydrogen) and Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon dating on the same archaeological human skeletal material from Crete dating from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age. Analyses aim to reconstruct geographical origin /s and the individual dietary records for the people analysed, distinguish between different groups, track and interpret any residential mobility.