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Tradition and change in the interpretation of burial practices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Erik Drenth
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Lohof's paper represents a brave attempt to relate burial ritual of the Late Neolithic, Early and Middle Bronze Age in the north-eastern Netherlands to social change in general. Being the first study of its kind for this area, it certainly deserves our attention.

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Archaeological Dialogues , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , August 1994 , pp. 119 - 121
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Copyright © The Author(s) 1994

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