New perspectives on the Varna cemetery (Bulgaria) - AMS dates and social implications

Antiquity

Volumn 81, Issue 313, 2007, Pages 640-654

  Higham, Tom ^a   Chapman, John ^b   Slavchev, Vladimir ^c   Gaydarska, Bisserka ^b   Honch, Noah ^a   Yordanov, Yordan ^d   Dimitrova, Branimira ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Museum of Natural History   (Bulgaria)

^d Institute of Experimental Morphology and Anthropology Bulgarian Academy of Sciences   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Bulgaria; Copper Age; Eneolithic; Mortuary practice; Varna

Indexed keywords

CEMETERY; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; RADIOCARBON DATING; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

BULGARIA; EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VARNA;

EID: 34848865323     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00095636     Document Type: Article

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