Locating land use at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey: The implications of 87Sr/86Sr signatures in plants and sheep tooth sequences

Archaeometry

Volumn 56, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 860-877

  Bogaard, A ^a   Henton, E ^b   Evans, J A ^c   Twiss, K C ^d   Charles, M P ^a   Vaiglova, P ^a   Russell, N ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Farming; Herding; Mobility; Neolithic; Strontium isotopes; Turkey

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; LAND USE; NEOLITHIC; PALEOBOTANY; PLANT; SHEEP; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TOOTH;

OVIS ARIES;

EID: 84914148019     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: 14754754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/arcm.12049     Document Type: Article

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