Cosmopolitan Catterick? Isotopic evidence for population mobility on Rome's Northern frontier

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1525-1536

  Chenery, Carolyn ^a,b   Eckardt, Hella ^a   Müldner, Gundula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Isotopes diet mobility; Roman Britain bone teeth

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BONE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MOBILITY; SKELETAL REMAINS; SUBURBAN AREA; TOOTH; URBAN HISTORY; URBAN POPULATION;

ENGLAND; ITALY; LAZIO; NORTH YORKSHIRE; ROMA [LAZIO]; ROME; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79956128463     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2011.02.018     Document Type: Article

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