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A contextual approach to the interpretation of the early Bronze Age skeletons of the East Anglian Fens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jo Roberts
Jo Roberts*
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Earth Resources Centre, University of Exeter, Laver Building, North Park Road, Exeter EX4 4QE, England J.Roberts@exeter.ac.uk
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Abstract

The fenland peats of eastern England have produced some 36 prehistoric burials, whose distinctive associations place them into the early Bronze Age–just sufficient for pattern to be evident in their placing and character.

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Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 275 , March 1998 , pp. 188 - 197
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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