The changing role of herding in the early Iron age of Crete: Some implications of settlement shift for economy

American Journal of Archaeology

Volumn 107, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 601-627

  Wallace, Saro A ^a  

^a British School at Athens   (Greece)

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DOI: 10.3764/aja.107.4.601     Document Type: Article

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