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The role of birds as grave gifts in richly furnished Roman Iron Age inhumation graves c. 1-375 AD, eastern Denmark

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Gotfredsen, Anne Birgitte (2013): The role of birds as grave gifts in richly furnished Roman Iron Age inhumation graves c. 1-375 AD, eastern Denmark. Anthropozoologica 48 (2): 355-370, DOI: 10.5252/az2013n2a12, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/az2013n2a12

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