South American Archaeological Isotopic Database, a regional-scale multi-isotope data compendium for research.

ABSTRACT: The South American Archaeological Isotopic Database (SAAID) is a comprehensive open-access resource that aggregates all available bioarchaeological stable and radiogenic isotope measurements, encompassing data from human individuals, animals, and plants across South America. Resulting from a collaborative effort of scholars who work with stable isotopes in this region, SAAID contains 53,781 isotopic measurements across 24,507 entries from individuals/specimens spanning over 12,000 years. SAAID includes valuable contextual information on archaeological samples and respective sites, such as chronology, geographical region, biome, and spatial coordinates, biological details like estimated sex and age for human individuals, and taxonomic description for fauna and flora. SAAID is hosted at the

SUBMITTER: Pezo-Lanfranco L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10995213 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature