The Canaanite village: Social structure of Middle Bronze Age rural communities

Levant

Volumn 37, Issue , 2005, Pages 105-125

  Faust, Avraham ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 70449938633     PISSN: 00758914     EISSN: 17563801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/lev.2005.37.1.105     Document Type: Review

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