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Ritual or fluvial? A further comment on the Thames skulls

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Barbara West*
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31–34 Gordon Square, London WC1H OPY, England

Abstract

Further (and final) comment on the origin of ancient human skulls from the River Thames (ANTIQUITY 62 (1988): 503–9; 69 (1995): 162–9) is prompted by comparison with the skulls from the London Thames tributary, the Walbrook.

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Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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