Mummy Publications

Chapters in Books and Symposia

White, C.
1995 Diet reconstruction from Nubian mummy tissues: Evidence from stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes. In A. Aufderheide and R. Anton (Eds.), Proceedings of the First World Congress on Mummy Studies. Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Museo Arquelógico y Etnográfico de Tenerife. pp. 571-578.

 Articles in Refereed Journals

White, C.
1993 Isotopic determination of seasonality of diet and death in ancient Nubian hair. Journal of Archaeological Science, 20: 657-666

White, C. and Armelagos, G.J.
1997 Osteopenia and stable isotope ratios in bone collagen of Nubian female mummies. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 103: 185-199.

White, C. and Schwarcz, H. P.
1994 Temporal trends in stable isotopes for Nubian mummy tissues. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 93: 165-187.

White, C., F.J. Longstaffe and K.R. Law
1999 Seasonal stability and variation in diet as reflected in human mummy tissues from the Kharga Oasis and the Nile Valley. Paleogeography, Paleoclimatology, Palaeoecology 147: 209-222

2004 Exploring the effects of environment, physiology and diet on oxygen isotope ratios in ancient Nubian bones and teeth. Journal of Archaeological Science 31: 233-250

Flannery, M.B., Stankiewicz, B.A., Hutchins, J.C., White, C.D., and Evershed, R.P.
1999 Chemical and morphological changes in human skin during preservation in waterlogged and dessicated environments. Ancient Biomolecules, 3, 37-50.

Schwarcz, H.P. and C.D. White
2004 The grasshopper or the ant? Cultigen-use strategies in ancient Nubia from C-13 analyses of human hair. Journal of Archaeological Science 31:53-62