Pursuing pilgrims: Isotopic investigations of Roman and Byzantine mobility at 
Hierapolis, Turkey

Wong, Megan; Brandt, J. Rasmus; Ahrens, Sven; Jaouen, Klervia; Bjørnstad, Gro; Nauman, Elise; Wenn, Camilla Cecilie; Kiesewetter, Henrike; Laforest, Caroline; Hagelberg, Erika; Lam, Vienna C.; Richards, Michael P.

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.12.005

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Pursuing pilgrims: Isotopic investigations of Roman and Byzantine mobility at Hierapolis, Turkey

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Jaouen, Klervia
Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society;

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Richards, Michael P.
Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society;

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Wong, M., Brandt, J. R., Ahrens, S., Jaouen, K., Bjørnstad, G., Nauman, E., et al. (2018). Pursuing pilgrims: Isotopic investigations of Roman and Byzantine mobility at Hierapolis, Turkey. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 17, 520-528. doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.12.005.

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Using strontium isotope analysis, we investigated the mobility of Roman (1st to 7th century AD) and Byzantine (9th–13th century AD) individuals buried at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Hierapolis, Turkey. Results from Roman and Byzantine individuals show that while the majority of the population interred at this site have local strontium isotope values, there are some individuals with values outside the local range, which we identify as migrants. This conclusion agrees in particular with the known history of pilgrimage at Hierapolis in the Byzantine period (as defined above) and with the archaeological evidence of pilgrim badges associated with human burials unearthed from recent excavations. In addition, we present the first map of bioavailable strontium in southwestern Turkey.