Passport stamps from nature
Hello beautiful and wise ones,
Did you know that our bodies digest various base elements from the bedrock where we reside? These particular base elements, known as stable isotopes transfer to streams we drink from, to plants we eat, to species we fish or hunt. Eventually, they may encapsulate themselves in the teeth enamel that forms when we are very young, along with our bones, even strands of hair and nails.
Like passport stamps from nature.
In prehistoric populations, the value of these isotopes may help us determine whether a person may have moved, have had a maritime or terrestrial diet, if the environment she´s spent her time has been moist or dry, and more. As many of us today consume various foods from distant corners of the world, the results from similar analyses would probably be misleading. In thousands of years though, when most of our shelves have gone back to the earth, what is left will at least bear witness of these cultural and environmental contacts.
Yet again, passport stamps from nature.
~August and December 2024, February 2026.
Photographs from Tanumshede in northern Bohuslän, Sweden.
