Birth and death: Infant burials from Vlasac and Lepenski Vir

Antiquity

Volumn 78, Issue 301, 2004, Pages 526-546

  Borić, Dušan ^a   Stefanović, Sofija ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Danube Gorges; Infant burial; Lepenski Vir; Mesolithic; Neolithic

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; INFANTICIDE; NEOLITHIC;

EURASIA; EUROPE; LEPENSKI VIR; SERBIA; SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VLASAC;

EID: 5044233524     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00113201     Document Type: Article

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