Monuments as landscape: Creating the centre of the world in late neolithic orkney

World Archaeology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 190-208

  Richards, Colin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Architecture; Landscape; Monuments; Neolithic; Orkney

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041004617     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.1996.9980340     Document Type: Article

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