Mobility of bell beaker people revealed by strontium isotope ratios of tooth and bone: A study of southern bavarian skeletal remains

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 517-525

  Grupe, Gisela ^a   Price, T Douglas ^b   Schröter, Peter ^c   Söllner, Frank ^d   Johnson, Clark M ^e   Beard, Brian L ^e  

^a Institut fur Anthropologie und Humangenetik   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c BAVARIAN NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS   (Germany)

^d Inst fur Allg und Angew Geol   (Germany)

^e Department of Geology and Geophysics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELL BEAKER PEOPLE; BONE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MOBILITY; NEOLITHIC; STRONTIUM; TOOTH;

GERMANY, BAVARIA;

EID: 0030788461     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0883-2927(97)00030-9     Document Type: Article

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