Characterizing the diet of individuals at the Neolithic chambered tomb of Hazleton North, Gloucestershire, England, using stable isotopic analysis

Archaeometry

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 114-128

  Hedges, Robert ^a   Saville, A ^b   O'Connell, T ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bone; Carbon; Neolithic; Nitrogen; Palaeodiet; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CARBON; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NEOLITHIC; NITROGEN;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; GLOUCESTERSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; BOS; CERVIDAE; OVIS ARIES; SUIDAE;

EID: 38549160655     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: 14754754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2007.00379.x     Document Type: Article

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