Direct evidence for the existence of dairying farms in prehistoric Central Europe (4th millennium BC)

Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 189-200

  Spangenberg, Jorge E ^a   Matuschik, Irenaus ^b   Jacomet, Stephanie ^c   Schibler, Joerg ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b Regierungsprasidium Stuttgart ^*  (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbon 13; Compound specific isotope analysis; Dairying farms; Fatty acids; Food; Germany; Neolithicum; Nitrogen 15; Organic residues; Potsherds; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FATTY ACID; NITROGEN;

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DAIRY FARMING; FARMING SYSTEM; FATTY ACID; FOOD; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NEOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

ANIMAL; ARCHEOLOGY; CERAMICS; CHEMISTRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DAIRYING; GERMANY; HISTORY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MILK; SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; CARBON ISOTOPES; CERAMICS; DAIRYING; FATTY ACIDS; GERMANY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MILK; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; SWITZERLAND;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY;

ANIMALIA; BOVIDAE; POACEAE;

EID: 46249095989     PISSN: 10256016     EISSN: 14772639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10256010802066349     Document Type: Conference Paper

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