Cereals in the Ghassulian Culture in Central Israel: Grinding installations as a case study

Israel Exploration Journal

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 63-79

  Eitam, David ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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