Social strategies, ritual and cosmology in Early Bronze Age Cyprus: An investigation of burial data from the north coast

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Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 185-209

  Webb, Jennifer M ^a   Frankel, David ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

COSMOLOGY; CYPRUS; EARLY BRONZE AGE; MORTUARY PRACTICE; RITUAL

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650218199     PISSN: 00758914     EISSN: 17563801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/175638010X12797237885776     Document Type: Review

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