Gristhorpe Man: An Early Bronze Age log-coffin burial scientifically defined

Antiquity

Volumn 84, Issue 325, 2010, Pages 796-815

  Melton, Nigel ^a   Montgomery, Janet ^a   Knüsel, Christopher J ^b   Batt, Cathy ^a   Needham, Stuart ^c   Pearson, Mike Parker ^d   Sheridan, Alison ^e   Heron, Carl ^a   Horsley, Tim ^f   Schmidt, Armin ^a   Evans, Adrian ^a   Carter, Elizabeth ^g   Edwards, Howell ^a   Hargreaves, Michael ^a   Janaway, Rob ^a   Lynnerup, Niels ^h   Northover, Peter ⁱ   O'Connor, Sonia ^a   Ogden, Alan ^a   Taylor, Timothy ^a   Wastling, Vaughan ^a   Wilson, Andrew ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Early Bronze Age; lite status; Gristhorpe; Log coffin burials; Metallurgy; Radiocarbon dating; Stable isotope

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649864977     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00100237     Document Type: Review

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