Stuck to the shore? Investigating prehistoric hunter-gatherer subsistence, mobility and territoriality in a Mediterranean coastal landscape through isotope analyses on marine mollusc shell carbonates and human bone collagen

Quaternary International

Volumn 244, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 88-104

  Mannino, M A ^a   Thomas, K D ^b   Leng, M J ^c,d   Di Salvo, R ^e   Richards, M P ^a,f  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e Museo Archeologico Regionale 'Antonino Salinas'   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; COLLAGEN; HUNTER-GATHERER; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; MOBILITY; MOLLUSC; PLEISTOCENE-HOLOCENE BOUNDARY; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; SHELL; SUBSISTENCE; TERRITORIALITY;

ITALY; SICILY;

DELLA; MOLLUSCA; OSILINUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 80053191852     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2011.05.044     Document Type: Article

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