Direct demonstration of milk as an element of archaeological economies

Science

Volumn 282, Issue 5393, 1998, Pages 1478-1481

  Dudd, Stephanie N ^a   Evershed, Richard P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; FATTY ACID; ISOTOPE;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGRICULTURE; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CONTAINER; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FOSSIL; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HISTORY; HUMAN; MILK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0032553361     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.282.5393.1478     Document Type: Article

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27. We thank J. Ridge and L. Ridge for their help in providing reference fats, J. Carter and A. Gledhill for technical support, the National Environment Research Council (grant GR3/10153) for funding and MS facilities (grant F14/6/13), and English Heritage and the Northamptonshire County Archaeology Unit for archaeological samples.