Paleodiet reconstruction of human remains from the archaeological site of Natfieh, northern Jordan

Radiocarbon

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 645-652

  Al Bashaireh, Khaled ^a   Al Shorman, Abdullah ^a   Rose, Jerome ^b   Jull, A J Timothy ^c   Hodgins, Gregory ^c  

^a YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BONE; CARBON ISOTOPE; DIET; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; RADIOCARBON DATING; ROMAN ERA; SKELETAL REMAINS; TEMPORAL PERIOD; TOOTH; TYPOLOGY;

JORDAN;

EID: 78049290894     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033822200045677     Document Type: Article

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