Reconstructing Ancient Egyptian Diet through Bone Elemental Analysis Using LIBS (Qubbet el Hawa Cemetery)

Table 2

Comparison between soil and bone elemental relative intensities for the three epochs under investigation.

	Soil	Bone		Diff.	-value	value
		Mean	SD
FIP
Ca	3.31	10.108	4.241	6.798	6.61	= <0.001
Sr	0.44	0.830	0.406	0.3901	3.958	= <0.001
Ba	2.14	0.831	0.37	−1.309	−14.581	= <0.001
MK
Ca	3.31	56.126	26.577	52.816	8.662	= <0.001
Sr	0.44	9.351	8.668	8.911	4.481	= <0.001
Ba	2.14	5.687	1.876	3.547	8.24	= <0.001
SIP
Ca	3.31	17.551	23.244	14.241	3.52	= <0.001
Sr	0.44	2.641	4.578	2.201	2.762	= 0.007
Ba	2.14	1.676	2.163	−0.464	−1.231	= 0.223

SD: standard deviation.
Significant at ; (nonsignificant), (significant), and (highly significant).