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Christine Neugebauer-Maresch, Eva Lenneis176 range, orientation appears the stronger candidate for signal- ling a different origin. Unfortunately, grave 66 was mostly destroyed at some point before the modern era, so we have little information about the burial itself. Overall, there are hints that the origins of these three individuals contributed to the features of their burials, but no signal aspect of burial rite that unites them. 6.4.4 Conclusion In general, the isotopic results from Kleinhadersdorf stress homogeneity, rather than structured difference. Despite a few interesting outliers, the majority of the population lived in the area throughout their lives and sourced their food is plotted against 1/Sr ppm385. Montgomery et al.386 have shown successfully that prehistoric populations can resolve into different groups when using this method. Within the Kleinhadersdorf population, the vast majority of the indivi- duals form a horizontal band, suggesting widely similar mo- bility/dietary practices (Figure 76). There appear to be only three outliers, grave 32 (female, 20–30), grave 55 (female, 30–50) and grave 66 (unsexed, 17–25), which may fall along a ‘mixing line’, but with so few samples this must remain as a suggestion only. Two molars were sampled from grave 66 (M1 and M3) and it is interesting to note that the M3 value is further away from the mean than M1. This does not necessarily mean that this individual moved away from the local area and back again, but does suggest that they were in late teens at least when they arrived in the Kleinhadersdorf area and died shortly afterwards. 87Sr/86Sr ratios above 0.711 are likely to come from a diet sourced off a geology consisting of gneiss- es and granites, which are found in the Bavarian Forest and the Bohemian Massif387. The nearest sources of these rocks lie to the west of the Kleinhadersdorf cemetery, approxi- mately 50  km away388. There are a number of interesting characteristics associ- ated with the three outliers with higher 87Sr/86Sr ratios. Grave 32 is accompanied by a pot with Šárka-ornamentation, which would have had its origins in the Northwest Mora- vian or Bohemian areas of the modern Czech Republic. Travel across uplands between these areas and the Poysdorf region may account for her elevated strontium value of 0.7114. Grave 55 stands out archaeologically as it is one of only two burials buried with a north-south orientation and is unusually also buried on the right-side. However, as other burials also buried on the right-side fall within the local 385. Montgomery et al. 2007. 386. Montgomery et al. 2007. 387. Grupe et al. 1997. – Price et al. 2004, 16. 388. Grupe et al. 1997 – Price et al. 2004. Fig.  75 (Abb. 75): Kleinhadersdorf: δ13C plotted against δ15N. The filled diamonds denote the δ13C outliers and the filled squares indi- cate the three males with low δ15N values (graph by P. Bickle et al.). Fig.  76 (Abb. 76): Kleinhadersdorf: 87Sr / 86Sr ratio plotted against 1 / Sr ppm. The filled circles are the three Sr outliers (graves 32, 55, 66, M1 and M3) – (graph by P. Bickle et al.). δ13C δ15N Male -19.75 9.59 Stdev 0.23 0.57 Stderr 0.06 0.14 Female -19.76* 9.49 Stdev 0.38 0.41 Stderr 0.12 0.13 Table 39 (Tabelle 39): Kleinhadersdorf: The averages and standard deviations for the δ13C and δ15N values. *19.85 ± 0.26 without the one outlier (grave 5a).