The subterranean landscape of the Southern Levant during the chalcolithic period

Sacred Darkness: A global perspective on the ritual use of caves

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 87-107

  Rowan, Yorke M ^a   Ilan, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology   (Israel)

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