Articles of possible interest
Vanessa Py, Aline Durand, Bruno Ancel, Anthracological analysis of fuel wood used for firesetting in medieval metallic mines of the Faravel district (southern French Alps), Journal of Archaeological Science, Available online 18 May 2013, ISSN 0305-4403, 10.1016/j.jas.2013.05.006.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440313001672)
Philipp v. Grumbkow, Sören Frommer, Lisette M. Kootker, Gareth R. Davies, Janine Mazanec, Susanne Hummel, Kinship and mobility in 11th-Century A.D. Gammertingen, Germany: an interdisciplinary approach, Journal of Archaeological Science, Available online 15 May 2013, ISSN 0305-4403, 10.1016/j.jas.2013.05.001.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440313001623)
(Note: includes a good explanation of how Strontium analysis and DNA analysis was done... but if you saw "Gammertingen" in a book, you'd swear it was made up by Terry Brooks, wouldn't you?)
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440313001672)
Philipp v. Grumbkow, Sören Frommer, Lisette M. Kootker, Gareth R. Davies, Janine Mazanec, Susanne Hummel, Kinship and mobility in 11th-Century A.D. Gammertingen, Germany: an interdisciplinary approach, Journal of Archaeological Science, Available online 15 May 2013, ISSN 0305-4403, 10.1016/j.jas.2013.05.001.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440313001623)
(Note: includes a good explanation of how Strontium analysis and DNA analysis was done... but if you saw "Gammertingen" in a book, you'd swear it was made up by Terry Brooks, wouldn't you?)