Making sense of the past in the present: A sensory analysis of carved stone balls

World Archaeology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 258-271

  Macgregor, Gavin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carved stone balls; Haptic; Re contextualization; Scotland; Sensory analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009830456     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.1999.9980445     Document Type: Article

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