Island identities: Ritual, travel and the creation of difference in neolithic Malta

European Journal of Archaeology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 175-202

  Robb, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Copper age; Cosmology; Ethnogenesis; Identity; Mediterranean; Trade

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842646688     PISSN: 14619571     EISSN: 17412722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/146195710100400202     Document Type: Article

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