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Diversity, lifestyles and rites: new biological and archaeological evidence from British Earlier Neolithic mortuary assemblages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Michael Wysocki  and
Alasdair Whittle
Michael Wysocki
Affiliation:
School of History & Archaeology, Cardiff University, PO Box 909, Cardiff CF1 3XU, Wales
Alasdair Whittle
Affiliation:
School of History & Archaeology, Cardiff University, PO Box 909, Cardiff CF1 3XU, Wales
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Britainburialhuman bonesforensic archaeologychambered long cairn

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Antiquity , Volume 74 , Issue 285 , September 2000 , pp. 591 - 601
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2000

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