Making metal and forging relations: Ironworking in the British Iron Age

Oxford Journal of Archaeology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 395-413

  Giles, Melanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAFT PRODUCTION; IRON AGE; METALLURGY; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 35348946991     PISSN: 02625253     EISSN: 14680092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2007.00290.x     Document Type: Article

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