'There's no place like home'-no isotopic evidence for mobility at the early bronze age cemetery of singen, Germany

Archaeometry

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 752-778

  Oelze, V M ^a   Nehlich, O ^a   Richards, M P ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bronze age; Mobility; Oxygen; Stable isotopes; Strontium; Sulphur

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; BRONZE AGE; CEMETERY; DRINKING WATER; ENAMEL; FOOD; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE;

BODENSEE; GERMANY;

EID: 84862325856     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: 14754754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2011.00644.x     Document Type: Article

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