Settlement heterogeneity and multivariate craft production in the Early Bronze Age Southern Levant

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 33-57

  Harrison, Timothy P ^a   Savage, Stephen H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRONZE AGE; CRAFT PRODUCTION; SETTLEMENT PATTERN;

JORDAN;

EID: 0042031413     PISSN: 09527648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1558/jmea.v16i1.33     Document Type: Article

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