Diversity in foddering strategy and herd management in late Bronze Age Britain: An isotopic investigation of pigs and other fauna from two midden sites

Environmental Archaeology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 126-140

  Madgwick, Richard ^a   Mulville, Jacqui ^b   Stevens, Rhiannon E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal husbandry; Bronze Age; D13C; D15N; Iron Age; Isotopic analysis; Midden; Pigs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871791546     PISSN: 14614103     EISSN: 17496314     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1461410312Z.00000000011     Document Type: Article

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