Agricultural origins and the isotopic identity of domestication in northern China

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 5523-5528

  Barton, Loukas ^a,b,c   Newsome, Seth D ^d   Chen, Fa Hu ^c   Wang, Hui ^e   Guilderson, Thomas P ^f   Bettinger, Robert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Katmai National Park   (United States)

^c LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e Gansu Province Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeological Research   (China)

^f LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

East Asia; millet; Neolithic; Origins of agriculture stable isotope biochemistry

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; ISOTOPE; NITROGEN 15;

AGRICULTURAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CANIDAE; CHINA; DOMESTICATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; MILLET; NEOLITHIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TILLAGE;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHINA; DOGS; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PANICUM; RADIOMETRIC DATING;

ALOPECURUS PRATENSIS; ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CANIS SP.; PANICUM MILIACEUM; SETARIA VIRIDIS; SORGHUM BICOLOR; SUIDAE; SUS SP.;

EID: 65249184458     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809960106     Document Type: Article

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