The Unto site: Excavations at a late first millennium B.C. and mid-second millennium A.D. habitation site in southeastern Negros Island, the Philippines

Asian Perspectives

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 106-136

  Bacus, Elisabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

"Kalanay" wares; Ceramic analysis; Chronology; Earthenware; Negros Island; Philippines; Southeast Asia

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; EARTHENWARES; HISTORICAL STUDY; PREHISTORIC; SOCIAL HISTORY; SOCIOPOLITICAL STRUCTURE;

PHILIPPINES, NEGROS ISLAND;

EID: 0031405130     PISSN: 00668435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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