Laboratory: Belfast


BP: 4544 Std: 39

Delta 13C value -22.7 Delta 13C standard deviation None given

Sample Material: collagen, bone Sample Material Comment: human, adult ?female R ilium

Feature Type: rockshelter/cave Feature: Cave 3

Culture: Neolithic Phase: n/a


Site: Killavullen Cave Country Subdivision: Cork Country: Ireland


Approved: true Right: public


Literature:

Coleman, John Christopher, Irish Cave Excavation. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1947, 63--80.

Dowd, Marion A, The use of caves for funerary and ritual practices in Neolithic Ireland. antiquity 82 / 316, 2008, 305--317.

Whittle, Alasdair William Richardson and Healy, Frances Margaret Alton and Bayliss, Alexandra, Gathering time: dating the early Neolithic enclosures of southern Britain and Ireland (2011).


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