The West Eurasian steppes during the Eneolithic, the Early and Middle Bronze
and the Iron Age were largely inhabited by communities believed to show an
elevated level of spatial mobility, often linked to their subsistence economy.
In this doctoral thesis, questions concerning the mobility and migration as
well as the diet and economy of these, in some sense mobile communities were
approached by applying isotope analyses, particularly 87Sr/86Sr, δ18O, δ15N
and δ13C analyses. Adapting these methods to a study area of extremely large
spatial and chronological dimensions and to a proportionally undersized sample
set certainly tested the limits of the methods, but it also allowed a wide
variety of questions to be answered
