Early Bronze Age flint technology and flake scatters in the north Syrian steppe along the middle Euphrates

Levant

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 170-184

  Nishiaki, Yoshihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

EARLY BRONZE AGE; FLAKE INDUSTRIES; FLAKED STONE; LANDSCAPE; LITHIC TECHNOLOGY; MIDDLE EUPHRATES; SETTLEMENT PATTERNS; SYRIA

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650200073     PISSN: 00758914     EISSN: 17563801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/175638010X12797237885730     Document Type: Review

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