Megaliths and Neolithic astronomy in southern Egypt

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6675, 1998, Pages 488-491

  Malville, J McKim ^a   Wendorf, Fred ^b   Mazar, Ali A ^c   Schild, Romauld ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Egyptian Mineral Resources Authority   (Egypt)

^d INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; MEGALITH; NEOLITHIC; STONE CIRCLE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EGYPT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SYMBOLISM;

EGYPT, NABTA;

EID: 0032473960     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/33131     Document Type: Article

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