The origin and use of copper at the chalcolithic fortification of leceia (Oeiras, Portugal)

Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts. Abteilung Madrid

Volumn 49, Issue , 2008, Pages 64-93

  Müller, Roland ^a   Cardoso, João Luís ^b  

^a University of Tübingen and Curt Engelhorn Zentrum Archäometrie   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDADE ABERTA   (Portugal)

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