Romancing the stones: Towards a virtual and elemental avebury

Archaeological Dialogues

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 143-164

  Pollard, Joshua ^a   Gillings, Mark ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Avebury; Elemental; GIS; Phenomenology; Stone; Virtual Reality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041004616     PISSN: 13802038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1380203800001276     Document Type: Article

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