Reconstruction of African human diet using bone collagen carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios

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• Publication year

  1986

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1986-12-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science, History

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/319321A0
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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