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Migration in the Bell Beaker period of central Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

T. Douglas Price ,
Gisela Grupe  and
Peter Schröter
T. Douglas Price
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, 1180 Observatory Drive, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI 53706-1393, USA. tdprice@facstaff.wisc.edu
Peter Schröter
Affiliation:
Anthropologische Staatssammlung, Karolinenplatz 2a, D-80333 Munich, Germany
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Abstract

Recent strontium isotope analysis of Beaker burials from Bavaria raises important new questions about prehistoric migrations in Europe.

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Bell BeakerBavariamigrationstrontium istotope
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Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 276 , June 1998 , pp. 405 - 411
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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