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Wessex with and without Mycenae: new evidence from Switzerland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

L. H. Barfield
L. H. Barfield*
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Department of Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Birmingham, PO Box 363, Birmingham B15 2TT
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The relationship, chronological and cultural between Wessex and Mycenae, was much argued about some 20 years ago, as the implications of radiocarbon calibration were taken note of. New finds from Switzerland, somewhat midway between south England and south Greece, offers some fresh evidence.

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Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 246 , March 1991 , pp. 102 - 107
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1991

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