Biographies of brilliance: Pearls, transformations of matter and being, c. ad 1492

World Archaeology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 243-257

  Saunders, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brilliance; Gold; Light; Pearls; Pre columbian america; Shamanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039698607     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.1999.9980444     Document Type: Article

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