Economy and diet at the late bronze age-iron age site of Čiča: Artefactual, archaeozoological and biochemical analyses

Eurasia Antiqua

Volumn 11, Issue , 2005, Pages 419-447

  Privat, Karen ^a   Schneeweiß, Jens ^b   Benecke, Norbert ^c   Vasil'ev, Sergej K ^g   O'Connell, Tamsin ^d   Hedges, Robert ^e   Craig, Oliver ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c GERMAN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^g NONE

Author keywords

i a; Diet; Economy; Iron Age; Late Bronze Age; Russian Federation; Western Siberia

Indexed keywords

EID: 34047178278     PISSN: 09490434     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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