Strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) variability in the Nile Valley: Identifying residential mobility during ancient Egyptian and Nubian sociopolitical changes in the New Kingdom and Napatan periods

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-9

  Buzon, Michele R ^a   Simonetti, Antonio ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Notre Dame   (United States)

Author keywords

bioarchaeology; MC ICP MS; migration; Sudan; Tombos

Indexed keywords

STRONTIUM; STRONTIUM 86; STRONTIUM 87; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URANIUM;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; EGYPT; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MIGRATION; ANIMAL; CATTLE; CHEMISTRY; DOG; ENAMEL; GOAT; HISTORY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; RAT; SHEEP; SUDAN; SWINE;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; CATTLE; DENTAL ENAMEL; DOGS; EGYPT; GOATS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; RATS; SHEEP; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRONTIUM ISOTOPES; SUDAN; SWINE; URANIUM;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876471744     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22235     Document Type: Article

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