The paleopathology of skulls recovered from a medieval cave cemetery near Safed, Israel (thirteenth to seventeenth century)

Levant

Volumn 36, Issue , 2004, Pages 243-250

  Mitchell, Piers D ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33646204356     PISSN: 00758914     EISSN: 17563801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/lev.2004.36.1.243     Document Type: Article

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