Archaeological and palaeo-environmental investigations of the upper Allen valley, Cranborne Chase, Dorset (1998-2000): A new model of earlier Holocene landscape development

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society

Volumn 69, Issue , 2003, Pages 201-234

  French, Charles ^a   Lewis, Helen ^b   Allen, Michael J ^c   Scaife, Robert G ^d   Green, Martin ^e   Gardiner, Julie ^f   Gdaniec, Kasia ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c WESSEX ARCHAEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^e Down Farm   (United Kingdom)

^f NONE

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EID: 13844258210     PISSN: 0079497X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1017/s0079497x00001316     Document Type: Review

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