Saints and Sinners: a tephrochronology for Late Antique landscape change in Epirus from the eruptive history of Lipari, Aeolian Islands

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2574-2579

  Bescoby, David ^a   Barclay, Jennifer ^a   Andrews, Julian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Butrint; Landscape change; Late Antiquity; Lipari; Tephrochronology

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; ARCHAEOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; TEPHROCHRONOLOGY;

EPIRUS; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; ITALY; LIPARI ISLANDS; MESSINA [SICILY]; SICILY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 47049108278     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2008.04.013     Document Type: Article

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