The social context of seafaring in the Bronze Age revisited

World Archaeology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 452-458

  Chapman, Henry P ^a   Gearey, Benjamin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bronze Age seafaring; Humber estuary; Re thinking ritual secular activity

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BRONZE AGE; MARITIME TRANSPORTATION; TRANSPORTATION HISTORY;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUMBER ESTUARY; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 11044221107     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0043824042000303647     Document Type: Article

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