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World Archaeology

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 624-640

  Hitchcock, Louise A ^a   Maeir, Aren M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Early Iron age; Late Bronze age; Mediterranean; Philistines; Piracy; Sea peoples

Indexed keywords

BRONZE AGE; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; IRON AGE; PIRACY; SOCIAL HISTORY; SOCIAL NETWORK;

EID: 84902702554     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: 14701375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2014.928602     Document Type: Article

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