The passage of axes: Fire transformation of flint objects in the Neolithic of southern Sweden

Antiquity

Volumn 74, Issue 285, 2000, Pages 602-610

  Larsson, Lars ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fire; Neolithic; Ritual deposition; Stone axes; Sweden; Tombs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039246827     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00059962     Document Type: Article

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