New strontium isotope map of Sub-Saharan Africa is a powerful tool for archaeology, forensics, and wildlife conservation. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 1, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases ...

UC Santa Cruz researchers unveiled a strontium isotope map of Sub-Saharan Africa, revolutionizing efforts to trace origins in archaeology, wildlife trafficking and human migration. This open-access ...

Sub-Saharan Africa is urbanizing with massive rural-urban migration. But unlike the urbanization of the Western world, Sub-Saharan Africa is missing a critical component: industrialized urban cities.

Strontium isoscape of sub-Saharan Africa allows tracing origins of victims of the transatlantic slave trade. Nature Communications . Published online December 30, 2024. doi: 10.1038/s41467-024 ...

The research team’s methods, and a few demonstrations of the map’s capabilities, are published in the journal Nature Communications. The map is available for public use through open access. It is the ...