Oxygen isotope analysis of California mussel shells: Seasonality and human sedentism at an 8,200-year-old shell midden on Santa Rosa Island, California

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 293-303

  Jew, Nicholas P ^a   Erlandson, Jon M ^a   Rick, Torben C ^b   Reeder Myers, Leslie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^c SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early Holocene; Human mobility; Mytilus californianus; Northern Channel Islands; Shellfish

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911950368     PISSN: 18669557     EISSN: 18669565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12520-013-0156-1     Document Type: Article

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