Stable Isotope Evidence for European Upper Paleolithic Human Diets

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9781402096983, 2009, Pages 251-257

  Richards, Michael P ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aquatic foods; Carbon; Diet; Marine foods; Nitrogen; Stable isotopes; Upper palaeolithic

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045434090     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9699-0_20     Document Type: Chapter

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