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The passage of axes: fire transformation of flint objects in the Neolithic of southern Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Lars Larsson
Lars Larsson*
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Institute of Archaeology, University of Lund, Sandgatan 1, S-223 50 Lund, Sweden. Lars.Larsson@ark.lu.se
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Swedenstone axesNeolithicfiretombsritual deposition

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Antiquity , Volume 74 , Issue 285 , September 2000 , pp. 602 - 610
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