Life in woods: Tree-throws, 'settlement' and forest cognition

Oxford Journal of Archaeology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 241-254

  Evans, Christopher ^a   Pollard, Joshua ^b   Knight, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; NEOLITHIC;

CAMBRIDGESHIRE; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032852521     PISSN: 02625253     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0092.00081     Document Type: Article

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