The world on a plate: Ceramics, food technology and cosmology in neolithic orkney

World Archaeology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-77

  Jones, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Ancestors; Ceramics; Food; Monuments; Neolithic; Storage

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CERAMICS; FOOD CONSUMPTION; MATERIAL CULTURE; MONUMENT;

ORKNEY; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032816350     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.1999.9980432     Document Type: Article

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