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The recent and ever-increasing amount of studies investigating human mobility for single individuals in the European Bronze Age (Bergerbrant et al. 2017; Blank et al. 2018; Cavazzutti et al. 2019a, 2019b; Felding et al. 2020; De Angelis et al. 2021; Frei 2012; Frei et al. 2015a, 2015b, 2017, 2019, 2020; Frei & Frei 2011, 2013; Frei & Price 2012; Hoogewerff et al. 2019; Knipper 2004; Ladegaard-Pedersen et al. 2020, 2021; Nielsen et al. 2020a, 2020b; Price et al. 2011; Reiter 2015; Reiter et al. 2019; Reiter & Frei 2015; Scheeres et al. 2014; Snoeck et al. 2015; Taylor et al. 2020; Turck et al. 2012) presents us with an unprecedented opportunity to study mobility theories. By examining these new body of data as a whole, patterns may emerge. There is a scholarly movement which is beginning to go beyond producing evidence for movement/non-movement to starting to assess social strategies which may have caused mobility/non-mobility (Reiter & Frei 2019)

This text addresses the complex relationship between the local or exotic appearance, biological place of origin and the geographical provenience of Early Bronze Age inhumations from southwest Slovakia, specifically in terms of an overarching masculine/feminine dichotomy. To this end, this article compares and contrasts the results of human dental enamel strontium analyses (as well as faunal-based strontium local baselines) from the sites of Jelšovce, Vráble (Fidvár) and Rybnik nad Hronom. The former are then juxtaposed with the results of a recent study of the non-metric traits undertaken on the totality of the various Early Bronze Age cultures present at the cemetery of Jelšovce (Nitra, Aunjetitz and Mad'arovce).