Long-term resilience of late Holocene coastal subsistence system in southeastern South America

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Colonese, André Carlo ^a   Collins, Matthew ^a   Lucquin, Alexandre ^a   Eustace, Michael ^a   Hancock, Y ^a   Ponzoni, Raquel De Almeida Rocha ^a   Mora, Alice ^b   Smith, Colin ^b   DeBlasis, Paulo ^c   Figuti, Levy ^c   Wesolowski, Veronica ^c   Plens, Claudia Regina ^d   Eggers, Sabine ^c   De Farias, Deisi Scunderlick Eloy ^e   Gledhill, Andy ^f   Craig, Oliver Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARBON; COLLAGEN; NITROGEN; APATITE; CERAMICS; LIPID;

ADULT; AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DOMESTICATED PLANT; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPLOITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; LATE HOLOCENE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROCESS TECHNOLOGY; SEASHORE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOUTH AMERICA; YOUNG ADULT; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BONE; CERAMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GEOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; ISOTOPE LABELING; METABOLISM; TIME;

AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; APATITES; ARCHAEOLOGY; BAYES THEOREM; BONE AND BONES; BRAZIL; CARBON ISOTOPES; CERAMICS; COLLAGEN; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; ISOTOPE LABELING; LIPIDS; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84899555301     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093854     Document Type: Article

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