The petrous bone-a new sampling site for identifying early dietary patterns in stable isotopic studies

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 138, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 199-209

  Jørkov, Marie Louise S ^a   Heinemeier, Jan ^b   Lynnerup, Niels ^c  

^a BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Carbon; Early dietary signal; Intraskeletal variation; Nitrogen; Petrous bone

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; CARBON ISOTOPES; DENMARK; DIET; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PETROUS BONE;

EID: 59949101061     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20919     Document Type: Article

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