Murray-Darling basin freshwater shells: Riverine reservoir effect

Archaeology in Oceania

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 107-111

  Gillespie, Richard ^a,b   Fink, David ^c   Petchey, Fiona ^d   Jacobsen, Geraldine ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^c AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Carbon isotopes; Carbonate; Freshwater shell; Protein

Indexed keywords

EID: 68349101958     PISSN: 07284896     EISSN: 18344453     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.1834-4453.2009.tb00053.x     Document Type: Article

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