Ritual and rationality: Some problems of interpretaton in European archaeology

European Journal of Archaeology

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 313-344

  Brück, Joanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Deposition; Middle Bronze Age; Rationality; Ritual; Secular

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008328334     PISSN: 14619571     EISSN: 17412722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/146195719900200303     Document Type: Article

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