exploring human subsistence strategies and environmental change through stable isotopes in the Dry Puna of Argentina

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 134-148

  Samec, C T ^a   Morales, M R ^b   Yacobaccio, H D ^b  

^a Instituto de Geocronologia y Geologia Isotopica   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Dry Puna; Early and Mid Holocene; Environmental change; Isotopic ecology; Stable isotopes; Wild camelids

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897481530     PISSN: 1047482X     EISSN: 10991212     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/oa.2332     Document Type: Article

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