Stable isotope analyses and the evolution of human diets

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 43, Issue , 2014, Pages 413-430

  Schoeninger, Margaret J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

agriculture; carbon stable isotope ratios; Neanderthals; nitrogen stable isotope ratios; nonhuman primates; Plio Pleistocene hominins

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; DIET; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC RATIO; MAIZE; NEANDERTHAL; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY; PRIMATE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

PRIMATES;

EID: 84908150844     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-anthro-102313-025935     Document Type: Review

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