Stone circles and the structure of Bronze Age society

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2612-2621

  Grove, Matt ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b BRASENOSE COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bronze Age; Cumulative density function; Ireland; Monte Carlo Simulation; Nested hierarchy; Rank size rule; Stone circles

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BRONZE AGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; MONUMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

IRELAND;

EID: 77955280361     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2010.05.021     Document Type: Article

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