A distinct section of the early bronze age society? Stable isotope investigations of burials in settlement pits and multiple inhumations of the Únětice culture in central Germany

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 496-516

  Knipper, Corina ^a   Fragata, Matthias ^b   Nicklisch, Nicole ^c,d   Siebert, Angelina ^e   Szécsényi Nagy, Anna ^f   Hubensack, Vera ^g   Metzner Nebelsick, Carola ^h   Meller, Harald ^c   Alt, Kurt W ^c,d,i  

^a University of Tübingen and Curt Engelhorn Zentrum Archäometrie   (Germany)

^b SI Analytics GmbH   (Germany)

^c State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony Anhalt   (Germany)

^d Austria   (Austria)

^e JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^g Archaeological Heritage Office Saxony   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

burial practices; Central Europe; diet; mobility; strontium isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; COLLAGEN; NITROGEN 15; RADIOISOTOPE; STRONTIUM 86; STRONTIUM 87; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; STRONTIUM;

ADULT; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BONE; BRONZE AGE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EATING HABIT; ENAMEL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; JUVENILE; LOESS; MALE; MIGRATION; PIG; TOOTH; ANIMAL; ANTHROPOLOGY; BURIAL; CHEMISTRY; DIET; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY;

ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY; BONE AND BONES; BURIAL; DIET; GERMANY; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; STRONTIUM RADIOISOTOPES; SWINE; TOOTH;

EID: 84958884991     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22892     Document Type: Article

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