Ancient bones and modern myths: Ninth millennium BC hippopotamus hunters at Akrotiri Aetokremnos, Cyprus?

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 85-96

  Bunimovitz, Shlomo ^a   Barkai, Ran ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 0003109895     PISSN: 09527648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/jmea.v9i1.29929     Document Type: Article

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