Diet and human mobility from the lapita to the early historic period on Uripiv Island, Northeast Malakula, Vanuatu

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Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Kinaston, Rebecca ^a   Bedford, Stuart ^b   Richards, Michael ^c,d   Hawkins, Stuart ^b   Gray, Andrew ^a   Jaouen, Klervia ^d   Valentin, Frederique ^e   Buckley, Hallie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COLLAGEN; NITROGEN; STABLE ISOTOPE; STRONTIUM; STRONTIUM 86; STRONTIUM 87; SULFUR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGRICULTURAL PROCEDURES; ANIMAL FOOD; ARBORICULTURE; ARTICLE; CULTURAL PERIOD; DEMOGRAPHY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HISTORICAL PERIOD; HORTICULTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; LAPITA PERIOD; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POPULATION GROWTH; PREHISTORIC PERIOD; SWINE; VANUATU; BONE; CHEMISTRY; DIET; ISLAND (GEOLOGICAL); MIGRATION;

BONE AND BONES; CARBON ISOTOPES; DIET; FOOD HABITS; HUMAN MIGRATION; HUMANS; ISLANDS; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; VANUATU;

EID: 84928206182     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104071     Document Type: Article

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