Inferences from the human skeletal material of the Early Iron Age cemetery at Agios Dimitrios, Fthiotis, Central Greece

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 2924-2933

  Papathanasiou, Anastasia ^a   Panagiotopoulou, Eleni ^b   Beltsios, Konstantinos ^b   Papakonstantinou, Maria Foteini ^c   Sipsi, Maria ^c  

^a Ephorate Palaeoanthropology Speleol   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c 14th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Early Iron Age; Greece; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CEMETERY; DENTAL HEALTH; DIET; HEALTH STATUS; IRON AGE; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; OSTEOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; SKELETAL REMAINS; STABLE ISOTOPE;

CENTRAL GREECE; GREECE;

EID: 84876446220     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2013.02.027     Document Type: Article

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