Sheep, stockyards and field systems: Bronze Age livestock populations in the Fenlands of eastern England

Antiquity

Volumn 70, Issue 268, 1996, Pages 313-324

  Pryor, Francis ^a  

^a Flag Fen Excavations   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONZE AGE; HISTORICAL STUDY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LIVESTOCK AGRICULTURE; PREHISTORIC; RURAL HISTORY;

UK, ENGLAND, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, FLAG FEN;

EID: 0030478278     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00083290     Document Type: Article

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