Part-time farmers or hard-core sealers? Västerbjers studied by means of stable isotope analysis

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 135-162

  Eriksson, Gunilla ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Burial; Gotland; Middle Neolithic; Palaeodiet ecology; Pitted Ware Culture; Radiocarbon dating; Reservoir effect; Seal hunting; Stable isotope analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 1942491229     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2003.12.005     Document Type: Article

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