The use of caves for funerary and ritual practices in Neolithic Ireland

Antiquity

Volumn 82, Issue 316, 2008, Pages 305-317

  Dowd, Marion A ^a  

^a Atlantic Technological University   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Caves; Funerary practice; Ireland; Neolithic; Ritual

Indexed keywords

EID: 45749153843     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00096824     Document Type: Article

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