Fishing-gear sinkers recovered from an underwater wreckage site, off the Carmel coast, Israel

International Journal of Nautical Archaeology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 182-201

  Galili, Ehud ^a   Rosen, Baruch ^a   Sharvit, Jacob ^a  

^a IAA Marine Archaeology Branch   (Israel)

Author keywords

Fishing gear; Lead sinkers; Underwater survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548287222     PISSN: 10572414     EISSN: 10959270     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-9270.2002.tb01413.x     Document Type: Article

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