The ritual landscape of ‘boar mountain’ basin: The niuheliang site complex of north-eastern china

World Archaeology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 209-219

  Barnes, Gina L ^a   Dashun, Guo ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Liaoning Provincial Museum   (China)

Author keywords

China; Jade; Landscape; Neolithic; Ritual; Sculpture; Tombs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041927310     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.1996.9980341     Document Type: Article

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