Rillenkarren at Vayia: Geomorphology and a new class of Early Bronze Age fortified settlement in southern Greece

Antiquity

Volumn 80, Issue 307, 2006, Pages 145-160

  Tartaron, Thomas F ^a   Pullen, Daniel J ^b   Noller, Jay S ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Early Bronze Age; Fortifications; Greece; Karst geomorphology; Stone cairns

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BRONZE AGE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; KARST; SETTLEMENT HISTORY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 33749035795     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00093327     Document Type: Article

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