Seeing things: Perception, experience and the constraints of excavation

Journal of Social Archaeology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 151-168

  Bradley, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bronze Age; excavation; field survey; fieldwork; megalithic tomb; Neolithic; phenomenology; Scotland

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990385245     PISSN: 14696053     EISSN: 17412951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1469605303003002002     Document Type: Article

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