Entering alternative realities: Cognition, art and architecture in Irish passage-tombs

Cambridge Archaeological Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 37-72

  Dronfield, Jeremy ^a  

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EID: 3543056207     PISSN: 09597743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0959774300001591     Document Type: Review

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