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Tombs and monumentality in southern Madagascar: preliminary results of the central Androy survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mike Parker Pearson
Mike Parker Pearson*
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Department of Archaeology & Prehistory, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK
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This note reports the initial results of a joint multidisciplinary project between the University of Sheffield and the Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie in Antananarivo, which has concentrated on the investigation of the social and economic significance of the tombs that are an outstanding landscape feature in an area of southern Madagascar.

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Antiquity , Volume 66 , Issue 253 , December 1992 , pp. 941 - 948
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1992

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