Stone cairns across eastern Africa: A critical review

Azania

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 218-240

  Davies, Matthew I J ^a,b  

^a British Institute in Eastern Africa   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

eastern Africa; Iron Age; memory making; Pastoral Neolithic; stone cairns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879921751     PISSN: 0067270X     EISSN: 19455534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0067270X.2013.789207     Document Type: Review

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