Pastoralism in northern Peru during pre-Hispanic times: Insights from the Mochica period (100-800 AD) based on stable isotopic analysis of domestic camelids

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Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Dufour, Elise ^a   Goepfert, Nicolas ^b   Léon, Belkys Gutiérrez ^c   Chauchat, Claude ^b   Jordán, Régulo Franco ^d   Sánchez, Segundo Vásquez ^c  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b Asociated to Laboratoire Archéologie des Amériques   (France)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TRUJILLO   (Peru)

^d Museo de Cao Fundación Wiese   (Peru)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIC ACID; COLLAGEN; DELTA 13C; DELTA 15N; DELTA 18O; ISOTOPE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ARTIODACTYLA; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGY; BONE STRUCTURE; BREEDING; ENAMEL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HISTORICAL PERIOD; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; LAMA GLAMA; LIFE HISTORY; MAIZE; MOCHICA PERIOD; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PASTORALISM; PERU; RITUAL; SPECIES TRANSLOCATION; VICUGNA PACOS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BREEDING; CAMELIDS, NEW WORLD; FOSSILS; PERU;

EID: 84900327372     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087559     Document Type: Article

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