Geological Constraints on Ground Stone Production and Consumption in the Southern Levant

New Approaches to Old Stones: Recent Studies of Ground Stone Artifacts

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 19-40

  Schneider, Joan S ^a   Laporta, Philip C ^b  

^a California State Parks   (United States)

^b NONE

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315539058-10     Document Type: Chapter

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