Not so coarse, nor always plain - The earliest pottery of Syria

Antiquity

Volumn 84, Issue 323, 2010, Pages 71-85

  Nieuwenhuyse, Olivier P ^a   Akkermans, Peter M M G ^a   Van Der Plicht, Johannes ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Neolithic; Pottery; PPN; Syria; Upper Mesopotamia

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952900336     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00099774     Document Type: Article

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