Stable carbon and nitrogen isotopic analyses of the underclass at the colonial cape of good hope in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

World Archaeology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 73-97

  Cox, G ^a   Sealy, J ^a   Schrire, C ^b   Morris, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dental modification; Slavery; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NINETEENTH CENTURY; SLAVE; SOCIAL HISTORY;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BONE; CHEMISTRY; DENTAL CARE; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; METHODOLOGY; POSTHUMOUS CARE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOUTH AFRICA; TOOTH;

ARCHAEOLOGY; BONE AND BONES; CARBON ISOTOPES; ESTHETICS, DENTAL; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; MORTUARY PRACTICE; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOUTH AFRICA; TOOTH;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0034937110     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438240126647     Document Type: Article

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