Redfern, R.C.DeWitte, S.N.Beaumont, JuliaMillard, A.R.Hamlin, C.2019-08-302019-09-232019-08-302019-09-232019Redfern RC, DeWitte SN, Beaumont J et al (2019) A new method for investigating the relationship between diet and mortality: hazard analysis using dietary isotopes. Annals of Human Biology. 46(5): 378-387.RMSID:212518233http://hdl.handle.net/10454/17244YesBioarchaeological and clinical data show that diet influences health, and this relationship is crucial to how we understand past health with respect to sex and age. We propose a new method that coinvestigates the relationship between mortality risk and diet in the past. Our method integrates dietary stable isotope data (δ13 Carbon and δ 15 Nitrogen) from Roman Britain (N=659) with hazards analysis. The results show that these data can be informatively used in this type of analysis in general, and that in the context of Roman Britain, higher δ 13C is associated with lower risks of mortality while higher δ 15N is associated with elevated risks of mortality. Importantly, the results emphasize that a bioarchaeological approach to interpretation must be taken in order to more fully understand the results obtained by the methoden© 2019 Taylor & Francis. The Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in Annals of Human Biology 1st Sep 2019 http://www.tandfonline.com/https://doi.org/10.1080/03014460.2019.1662484.MortalityDietHazard analysisStable isotope analysisRoman BritainArticlehttps://doi.org/10.1080/03014460.2019.1662484Unspecified2019-08-30