Interrelationship of age and diet in Romania's oldest human burial

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 321-325

  Bonsall, Clive ^a   Boroneanţ, Adina ^b   Soficaru, Andrei ^c   McSweeney, Kathleen ^a   Higham, Tom ^d   Miriţoiu, Nicolae ^c   Pickard, Catriona ^a   Cook, Gordon ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b 'Vasile Parvan' Institute of Archaeology   (Romania)

^c 'Francisc I Rainer' Anthropological Research Centre   (Romania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

14C; Burial; Calibration; Climente II; Palaeolithic; Romania; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ISOTOPE; NITROGEN;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARTIFACT; BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CALIBRATION; DIET; EXCAVATION; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HOMINID; HUNTING; MALE; NEOLITHIC; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; SKELETON; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BONE; CHEMISTRY; DIET; FISH; FOSSIL; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; POSTHUMOUS CARE; RADIOMETRIC DATING; ROMANIA;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BURIAL; CARBON ISOTOPES; DIET; FISHES; FOSSILS; HUMANS; ISOTOPES; MALE; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; RADIOMETRIC DATING; ROMANIA;

DANUBE RIVER; ROMANIA;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84863708213     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-012-0897-1     Document Type: Article

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