Exploring mobility in Italian Neolithic and Copper Age communities.
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Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
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Date de publication:
29 01 2021
29 01 2021
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2020
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01
2021
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2021
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2021
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2021
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Résumé
As a means for investigating human mobility during late the Neolithic to the Copper Age in central and southern Italy, this study presents a novel dataset of enamel oxygen and carbon isotope values (δ
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pubmed: 33514802
doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-81656-z
pii: 10.1038/s41598-021-81656-z
pmc: PMC7846752
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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eng
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