'Mortuary practices, society and ideology': The lack of Iron Age I Burials in the highlands in context

Israel Exploration Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 174-190

  Faust, Avraham ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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