Dietary habits and freshwater reservoir effects in bones from a Neolithic ne German cemetery

Radiocarbon

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 635-644

  Olsen, Jesper ^a,b   Heinemeier, Jan ^a   Lübke, Harald ^c   Lüth, Friedrich ^d   Terberger, Thomas ^e  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^c Schleswig Holstein State Museums Foundation Schloss Gottorf   (Germany)

^d Römisch Germanische Kommission in Frankfurt am Main   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY; BONE; CEMETERY; DIET; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NEOLITHIC; RESERVOIR; STABLE ISOTOPE; TOOTH;

GERMANY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78049247079     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200045665     Document Type: Article

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