The First New Zealanders: Patterns of Diet and Mobility Revealed through Isotope Analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Kinaston, Rebecca L ^a   Walter, Richard K ^b   Jacomb, Chris ^b   Brooks, Emma ^b   Tayles, Nancy ^a   Halcrow, Sian E ^a   Stirling, Claudine ^b   Reid, Malcolm ^b   Gray, Andrew R ^b   Spinks, Jean ^b   Shaw, Ben ^c   Fyfe, Roger ^d   Buckley, Hallie R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CANTERBURY MUSEUM   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; NITROGEN 15; RADIOISOTOPE; STRONTIUM 86; STRONTIUM 87; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BONE EXAMINATION; CHILDHOOD; DIET; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; PREHISTORIC PERIOD;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; DIET; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84877768351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064580     Document Type: Article

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