Food for thought: Re-assessing mesolithic diets in the Iron gates

Radiocarbon

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 689-699

  Bonsall, Clive ^a   Cook, Gordon ^b   Pickard, Catriona ^a   McSweeney, Kathleen ^a   Sayle, Kerry ^b   Bartosiewicz, László ^c   Radovanović, Ivana ^d   Higham, Thomas ^e   Soficaru, Andrei ^f   Boroneanţ, Adina ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

Author keywords

Iron gates; Mesolithic; Paleodiets; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BONE; COLLAGEN; DIET; FOOD; HOMINID; IRON; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MESOLITHIC; RADIOCARBON DATING; STABLE ISOTOPE;

DANUBE VALLEY;

EID: 84942091173     PISSN: 00338222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2458/azu_rc.57.18440     Document Type: Article

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