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Thoughts on the ‘Repacked’ Neolithic Revolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Julian Thomas
Julian Thomas*
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School of Art History & Archaeology, University of Manchester
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Abstract

Was the British Neolithic a take-it-or-leave-it “package” which included building monuments and giving up fish? Julian Thomas thinks there was some room for creative packaging on the home front.

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Antiquity , Volume 77 , Issue 295 , March 2003 , pp. 67 - 74
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2003

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