Caching your savings: The use of small-scale storage in European prehistory

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 135-144

  Cunningham, Penny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Caches; Ethnographic; Farmers; Hunter gatherers; Mesolithic; Neolithic; Pits; Portable storage; Storage

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955035688     PISSN: 02784165     EISSN: 10902686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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