Integrating botanical, faunal and human stable carbon and nitrogen isotope values to reconstruct land use and palaeodiet at LBK Vaihingen an der Enz, Baden-Württemberg

World Archaeology

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 492-517

  Fraser, R A ^a   Bogaard, A ^a   Schafer M ^b   Arbogast, R ^c   Heaton, T H E ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^d NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

farming; herding; Linearbandkeramik; manuring; Neolithic; palaeodiet

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; LENS CULINARIS; PISUM SATIVUM; TRITICUM DICOCCON; TRITICUM MONOCOCCUM;

EID: 84923507919     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2013.820649     Document Type: Article

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