Complexity and diversity in the southern Levant during the third millennium BC: The evidence of Khirbet Kerak Ware

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 26-57

  Philip, Graham ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; TRADE FLOW;

MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 0032719644     PISSN: 09527648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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