Identifying kurgan graves in Eastern Hungary: A burial mound in the light of strontium and oxygen isotope analysis

Population Dynamics in Prehistory and Early History: New Approaches Using Stable Isotopes and Genetics

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 165-176

  Gerling, Claudia ^a   Heyd, Volker ^b   Pike, Alistair ^b   Bánffy, Eszter ^c   Dani, János ^d   Köhler, Kitti ^c   Kulcsár, Gabriella ^c   Kaiser, Elke ^a   Schier, Wolfram ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^d Deri Museum   (Hungary)

Author keywords

87 Sr 86 Sr and 18O analyses; Early Bronze Age; Hungary; Mobility; S rr tudvari O rhalom; Yamnaya

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017303061     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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