"Holy garbage": A quantitative study of the city-dump of Early Roman Jerusalem

Levant

Volumn 39, Issue , 2007, Pages 1-12

  Bar Oz, Guy ^a   Bouchnik, Ram ^a   Weiss, Ehud ^b,c   Weissbrod, Lior ^a,d   Bar Yosef Mayer, Daniella E ^a   Reich, Ronny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61049117364     PISSN: 00758914     EISSN: 17563801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/lev.2007.39.1.1     Document Type: Article

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