Sites from the Thames estuary wetlands, England, and their Bronze Age use

Antiquity

Volumn 70, Issue 268, 1996, Pages 325-334

  Meddens, F M ^a  

^a Cambridgeshire   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BRONZE AGE; HISTORICAL STUDY; LAND USE PATTERN; PREHISTORIC;

UK, ENGLAND, ESSEX, THAMES ESTUARY;

EID: 0030464130     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00083307     Document Type: Article

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