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ArticleInternational journal of legal medicine2024

Use of strontium isotope ratios in potential geolocation of Ajnala skeletal remains: a forensic archeological study.

J S Sehrawat, Shailesh Agrawal, Andrew P Kenney, Vaughan Grimes, Niraj Rai

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J S SehrawatDepartment of Anthropology, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India. jagminder@pu.ac.in.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7333-9118
Shailesh AgrawalBirbal Sahni Institute of Paleosciences, Lucknow, India.
Andrew P KenneyDepartment of Archaeology, Memorial University, St. John's, NF, Canada.
Vaughan GrimesDepartment of Archaeology and Department of Earth Sciences (Cross-Appointed), Memorial University, St. John's, NF, Canada.
Niraj RaiBirbal Sahni Institute of Paleosciences, Lucknow, India.

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Stable isotope methods for provenance of unidentified human remains are relatively a newer field of enquiry in forensic archeology. It is of great interest for forensic experts these days. The application of strontium isotope analyses for estimating geolocation of archeological remains is of great interest in bioarcheology and modern forensics. The strontium (Sr) isotope composition of human bones and teeth has been widely used to reconstruct an individual's geo-affiliation, residential mobility, and migration history. Thousands of unknown human remains, reportedly belonging to 282 Indian soldiers of 26th Native Bengal regiment and killed in 1857, were exhumed non-scientifically from an abandoned well situated underneath a religious structure at Ajnala (Amritsar, India). Whether these remains belonged to the individuals, local or non-local to the site, was the important forensic archeological question to be answered by doing their thorough forensic anthropological examinations. In the present study, 27 mandibular teeth (18 s molars, 6 first molars, and 3 premolars) collected from the Ajnala skeletal assemblage were processed for strontium isotope analysis, and the measured ratios were compared with published isotope baseline data to estimate the locality status of these remains. The Sr isotopic values were concentrated in the range of 0.7175 to 0.7270. The comparative analysis of isotopic ratios revealed that most individuals buried in the Ajnala well have

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