'Impious easterners': Can oxygen and strontium isotopes serve as indicators of provenance in early medieval European cemetery populations?

European Journal of Archaeology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 117-145

  Brettell, Rhea ^a   Evans, Jane ^b   Marzinzik, Sonja ^c   Lamb, Angela ^b   Montgomery, Janet ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH MUSEUM   (United Kingdom)

^d DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural mediation; Early medieval; Enamel; Isotopes; Migration; Oxygen; Ringlemere; Strontium

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870825736     PISSN: 14619571     EISSN: 17412722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1461957112Y.0000000001     Document Type: Conference Paper

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