Wild at heart: Approaching Pitted Ware identity, economy and cosmology through stable isotopes in skeletal material from the Neolithic site Korsnäs in Eastern Central Sweden

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 281-297

  Fornander, Elin ^a   Eriksson, Gunilla ^a   Lidén, Kerstin ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Carbon; Diet; Identity; Middle Neolithic; Nitrogen; Pitted Ware Culture; Radiocarbon dating; Stable isotopes; Sulphur; Sweden

Indexed keywords

EID: 51649096357     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: 10902686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2008.03.004     Document Type: Article

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