Earth, wood and fire materiality and stonehenge

Soils Stones and Symbols: Cultural Perceptions of the Mineral World

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 71-89

  Pearson, Mike Parker ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315066622     Document Type: Chapter

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