Alkaline cooking and stable isotope tissue-diet spacing in swine: archaeological implications

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1690-1697

  Warinner, Christina ^a   Tuross, Noreen ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Apatite; Bone; Carbon; Collagen; Cooking; Diet reconstruction; Enamel; Maize; Nixtamalization; Oxygen; Paleodiet; Pig; Stable isotopes; Sus domesticus

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE ROCK; APATITE; CARBON ISOTOPE; COLLAGEN; DIET; ENAMEL; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PIG; STABLE ISOTOPE;

SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 67349154394     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2009.03.034     Document Type: Article

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