Patterns of pastoralism in later Bronze Age Kazakhstan: New evidence from faunal and lipid residue analyses

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 2424-2435

  Outram, Alan K ^a   Kasparov, Alexei ^a,d   Stear, Natalie A ^b,e   Varfolomeev, Victor ^c   Usmanova, Emma ^c   Evershed, Richard P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c BUKETOV KARAGANDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (Kazakhstan)

^d INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE   (Russian Federation)

^e Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council UK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bronze Age; Central Asia; Kazakhstan; Pastoral; Prehistoric; Residue; Zooarchaeology

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BONE; BRONZE AGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; ISOTOPIC RATIO; LIPID; NEOLITHIC; PASTORALISM; PREHISTORIC; STABLE ISOTOPE;

CENTRAL ASIA; ENGLAND; KAZAKHSTAN; KENT; UNITED KINGDOM;

BOS; CAPRA HIRCUS; EQUIDAE; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84860889855     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2012.02.009     Document Type: Article

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