Water consumption in Iron Age, Roman, and Early Medieval Croatia

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 154, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 535-543

  Lightfoot, E ^a   Slaus M ^b   O'Connell, T C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CROATIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Dalmatia; ingested water; mobility; tooth enamel carbonate

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; OXYGEN; OXYGEN 18;

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CROATIA; ENAMEL; FAUNA; FLUID INTAKE; HISTORICAL PERIOD; HUMAN; IRON AGE; MIDDLE AGES; NONHUMAN; ROMAN PERIOD; WATER SUPPLY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; DIET; DRINKING; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; TOOTH;

ANIMALS; CROATIA; DIET; DRINKING; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; TOOTH; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84904068525     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22544     Document Type: Article

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