Life rhythms and floor sequences: Excavating time in rural rajasthan and neolithic catalhoyuk

World Archaeology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 367-388

  Boivin, Nicole ^a  

^a Cambridge ESOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lifecycle; Ritual; Soil micromorphology; Time; Use of space

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012872621     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438240009696927     Document Type: Article

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