Isotopic study of the Szczepankowice Early Bronze Age barrow burial ground in Southern Poland.

This paper presents the current stage of an ongoing research project regarding isotopic analyses of the Unetice culture in Silesia District (SW Poland). This study provides a new model of contextual interpretation of barrow burial ground in classic phase of the Unetice culture (1900-1750 BC) in Central Europe. It combines several elements: archaeological landscape study of Szczepankowice necropoly, paleopathological and isotopic analyses of skeletons from barrows (first local strontium baseline for Silesia, and mobility case study) and finally radiocarbon dating.