The social construction of water

Handbook of Landscape Archaeology

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 123-130

  Strang, Veronica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315427737-22     Document Type: Chapter

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