Place, death, and the transmission of social memory in early agricultural communities of the near eastern pre-pottery neolithic

Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 80-99

  Kuijt, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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EID: 85040439055     PISSN: 1551823X     EISSN: 15518248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ap3a.2001.10.1.80     Document Type: Article

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