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Who is signalling whom? Ceramic style, ethnicity and taphonomy among the Sirak Bulahay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Judy Sterner*
Affiliation:
Mandara Archaeological Project, Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1989

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