Administrators' bread: An experiment-based re-assessment of the functional and cultural role of the Uruk bevel-rim bowl

Antiquity

Volumn 84, Issue 324, 2010, Pages 351-362

  Goulder, Jill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bevel rim bowl; BRB; Bread; Uruk

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953590518     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X0006662X     Document Type: Article

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