Who was in Harold Bluetooth's army? Strontium isotope investigation of the cemetery at the Viking Age fortress at Trelleborg, Denmark

Antiquity

Volumn 85, Issue 328, 2011, Pages 476-489

  Price, T Douglas ^a,b   Frei, Karin Margarita ^c   Dobat, Andres Siegfried ^d   Lynnerup, Niels ^e   Bennike, Pia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bioarchaeology; Migration; Southern scandinavia; Strontium isotopes

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957631946     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00067880     Document Type: Article

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