Lapita diet in remote oceania: New stable isotope evidence from the 3000-year-old Teouma site, Efate Island, Vanuatu

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Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Kinaston, Rebecca ^a   Buckley, Hallie ^a   Valentin, Frederique ^b   Bedford, Stuart ^c   Spriggs, Matthew ^c   Hawkins, Stuart ^c   Herrscher, Estelle ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; COLLAGEN; DELTA CARBON 13; DELTA NITROGEN 15; DELTA SULFUR 34; NITROGEN 15; SULFUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; BAT; CHICKEN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIETARY INTAKE; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; FISH; HUMAN; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; RAT; SWINE; TURTLE; VANUATU; ANIMAL; BONE; CHEMISTRY; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HISTORY; MEAT; MIGRATION; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; CHICKENS; CHIROPTERA; DIET; FEMALE; FISHES; FOOD HABITS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEAT; SEX FACTORS; SUS SCROFA; TURTLES; VANUATU;

EID: 84897142828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090376     Document Type: Article

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