Sha'ar hagolan and new insights on near eastern proto-historic urban concepts

Oxford Journal of Archaeology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 189-209

  Ben shlomo, David ^a   Garfinkel, Yosef ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; NEOLITHIC; SETTLEMENT HISTORY; SETTLEMENT PLANNING; URBAN HISTORY; URBAN PLANNING;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 65449187084     PISSN: 02625253     EISSN: 14680092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2009.00324.x     Document Type: Article

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