Behaviour and belief in mortuary ritual: attitudes to the disposal of the dead in southern Britain 3500bc-AD43

Over 1700 prehistoric burial sites have been summarised and analysed for Southern Britain from the start of the Early Neolithic, through the Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Ages up to the Roman Invasion in AD43. This is the first time that such a study - covering c.4400 years of British prehistory - has...

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Main Author: Peter H.W. Bristow
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of York 2001-11-01
Series:Internet Archaeology
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Online Access:http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue11/bristow_index.html