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Julie Hamilton; R. Alexander Bentley; Penny Bickle; Linda Fibiger; Robert Hedges; Linda Reynard; Carrie Wright; Philippa Cullen; Christopher Dale; Geoff Nowell; Alasdair Whittle
The First Farmers of Central Europe, 07/2013Book Chapter
The analytical techniques on offer to the archaeologist today are accelerating at an astonishing and exciting rate, providing kinds of detailed insights into past lifeways which could scarcely have been imagined just a few decades ago. Aside from radiocarbon dating, isotopic studies have been used in archaeology as far back as the mid-1960s, beginning with lead isotopes in metal and its by-products (Pollard 2011, 631). However, this form of analysis has only really become established in archaeology over the last decade and a half, reinvigorating the approach to questions of social organisation and mobility in past societies (Priceet al.
