Radiocarbon and stable isotope analyses on the Earliest Jomon skeletons from the Tochibara rockshelter, Nagano, Japan

Radiocarbon

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 549-557

  Yoneda, Minoru ^a   Hirota, Masashi ^b   Uchida, Masao ^c   Tanaka, Atsushi ^a   Shibata, Yasuyuki ^a   Morita, Masatoshi ^a   Akazawa, Takeru ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b Institute of Accelerator Analysis Ltd (IAA)   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d National Institutes for the Humanities International Research Center for Japanese Studies   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON 14; CHARCOAL; ISOTOPE; NITROGEN;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SKELETAL REMAINS; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ADULT; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIET; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FOOD; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; JAPAN; MALE; PLANT; SKELETON;

HONSHU; JAPAN; NAGANO;

EID: 0036975997     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200031908     Document Type: Article

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