Gathering time : dating the early Neolithic enclosures of southern Britain and Ireland /

"Gathering Time presents the results of a major dating programme that re-writes the early Neolithic of Britain by more accurately dating enclosures, a phenomenon that first appeared in the early Neolithic: places of construction, labour, assembly, ritual and deposition. The project has combined...

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Main Author: Whittle, A. W. R
Corporate Author: George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund
Other Authors: Allen, Michael J, Bayliss, Alex, Bayliss, Alexandra, Healy, Frances
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books, [2011], ©2011
Oxford ; Oakville, CT : c2011
Oxford ; Oakville, CT : [2011]
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