Immigration and transhumance in the Early Bronze Age Carpathian Basin: The occupants of a kurgan

Antiquity

Volumn 86, Issue 334, 2012, Pages 1097-1111

  Gerling, Claudia ^a,b   Banffy, Eszter ^c   Dani, Janos ^d   Kohler, Kitti ^c   Kulcśar, Gabriella ^c   Pike, Alistair W G ^b   Szeveŕenyi, Vajk ^e   Heyd, Volker ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^d D eri uzeum Debrecen   (Hungary)

^e Ferenc Móra Museum   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Carpathians; Early Bronze Age; Hungarian Plain; Hungary; Kurgans; Stable isotopes; Transhumance; Yamnaya

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872043101     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00048274     Document Type: Article

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