Southwest Norway at the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition: Landscape Development, Colonization, Site Types, Settlement Patterns

Norwegian Archaeological Review

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 5-25

  Bang Andersen, Sveinung ^a  

^a Museum of Archaeology   (Norway)

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EID: 20444507798     PISSN: 00293652     EISSN: 15027678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00293650307293     Document Type: Article

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