Magnetic surveys locate Late Bronze Age corrals.
A new type of livestock enclosure from the Late Bronze Age has been discovered. Stone walls outline a pair of circular or oval areas that may be up to 50 m in diameter. The stone walls are invisible at the surface; they were discovered in north‐western Crimea and only with the aid of remote sensing...
| Publicado en: | Archaeological Prospection Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 3 - 17 |
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