'Sprouting like cockle amongst the wheat': The St Brice's Day Massacre and the isotopic analysis of human bones from St John's College, Oxford

Oxford Journal of Archaeology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 83-102

  Pollard, A M ^a   Ditchfield, P ^a   Piva, E ^a,b   Wallis, S ^c   Falys, C ^c   Ford, S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^c Thames Valley Archaeological Services Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BONE; COLLAGEN; DIET; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; RADIOCARBON DATING; SKELETAL REMAINS;

ENGLAND; OXFORD; OXFORDSHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84855878073     PISSN: 02625253     EISSN: 14680092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2011.00380.x     Document Type: Article

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