The date and sequence of use of neolithic funerary monuments: New ams dating evidence from the Cotswold-Severn region

Oxford Journal of Archaeology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 335-355

  Smith, Martin ^a   Brickley, Megan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BONE; CULTURAL TRADITION; DATING METHOD; MONUMENT; NEOLITHIC;

COTSWOLD HILLS; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33749516807     PISSN: 02625253     EISSN: 14680092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2006.00265.x     Document Type: Article

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