Stable isotope dietary analysis of prehistoric populations from the Minusinsk Basin, Southern Siberia, Russia: A new chronological framework for the introduction of millet to the eastern Eurasian steppe

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3936-3945

  Svyatko, Svetlana V ^a   Schulting, Rick J ^b   Mallory, James ^a   Murphy, Eileen M ^a   Reimer, Paula J ^a   Khartanovich, Valeriy I ^c   Chistov, Yury K ^c   Sablin, Mikhail V ^d  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^d ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Bronze Age; China; Crop based agriculture; Freshwater fish; Iron Age; Mobile pastoralists

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; ARCHAEOLOGY; BRONZE AGE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CHRONOLOGY; DIET; FISH; IRON AGE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PREHISTORIC; STABLE ISOTOPE;

EURASIA; KRASNOYARSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; MINUSINSK BASIN; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SIBERIA;

EID: 84881242513     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2013.05.005     Document Type: Article

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