Stable isotope evidence for late medieval (14th-15th C) origins of the eastern Baltic cod (Gadus morhua) fishery

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Orton, David C ^a   Makowiecki, Daniel ^b   de Roo, Tessa ^a   Johnstone, Cluny ^c   Harland, Jennifer ^a   Jonsson, Leif ^d   Heinrich, Dirk ^e   Enghoff, Inge Bødker ^f   Lõugas, Lembi ^g   van Neer, Wim ^h,i   Ervynck, Anton ^j   Hufthammer, Anne Karin ^k   Amundsen, Colin ^l   Jones, Andrew K G ^m   Locker, Alison ⁿ   Hamilton Dyer, Sheila ⁿ   Pope, Peter ^o   MacKenzie, Brian R ^p   Richards, Michael ^q,r   O'Connell, Tamsin C ^a   Barrett, James H ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^g TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

^h ROYAL BELGIAN INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Belgium)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^j Flemish Heritage Institute   (Belgium)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^l UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^m YORK ARCHAEOLOGICAL TRUST   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ Memorial University of Newfoundland ^*

^o MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^p TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^q UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^r MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC COD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; FISHERY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HISTORY; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; SKULL; ANIMAL; BONE; EUROPE; FOOD INDUSTRY; METHODOLOGY; SEA;

GADUS CALLARIAS; GADUS MORHUA;

ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; BONE AND BONES; CARBON ISOTOPES; EUROPE; FISHERIES; GADUS MORHUA; HISTORY, 15TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 16TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; OCEANS AND SEAS;

EID: 81155131600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027568     Document Type: Article

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