Where eagles dare: landscape, animals and the Neolithic of Orkney

Journal of Material Culture

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 301-324

  Jones, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; LANDSCAPE HISTORY; MEMORY; NEOLITHIC; SENSE OF PLACE;

ORKNEY; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032446781     PISSN: 13591835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/135918359800300303     Document Type: Article

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