The Eastern Wing of the Fertile Crescent: Late prehistory of Greater Mesopotamian lithic industries 9780860549659, 9781407350844

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Table of contents :
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Table of Contents
RÉSUMÉ FRANÇAIS
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2. EARLY "NEOLITHIC" CULTURE OF THE NEAR EAST
CHAPTER 3. IRAQI-IRANIAN PROVINCE
CHAPTER 4. LEVANTINE PROVINCE
CHAPTER 5. CAUCASIAN-CASPIAN PROVINCE
CHAPTER 6. FINAL REMARKS
CHAPTER 7. LIST OF SITES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
FIGURE CAPTIONS
PLATES

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BAR S760 1999

MAISON DE L'ORIENT MEDITERRANEEN

KOZLOWSKI: THE EASTERN WING OF THE FERTILE CRESCENT

The Eastern Wing of the Fertile Crescent Late prehistory of Greater Mesopotamian lithic industries

Stefan Karol Kozlowski with chapters by A vi Gopher and Galina Korobkova and Preface by Ofer Bar-Y osef

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BAR International Series 760 1999

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MAISON DE L'ORIENT MEDITERRANEEN

The Eastern Wing of the Fertile Crescent Late prehistory of Greater Mesopotamian lithic industries

Stefan Karol Kozlowski with chapters by A vi Gopher and Galina Korobkova and Preface by Of er Bar- Y osef

BAR International Series 760 1999

Published in 2016 by BAR Publishing, Oxford BAR International Series 760 Maison de l'Orient Mediterraneen The Eastern Wing of the Fertile Crescent

© S K Kozlowski and the Publisher 1999 The research presented in this book has been sponsored by Polish Research Committee KEN (grant 1 P108 017 06) The author's moral rights under the 1988 UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act are hereby expressly asserted. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be copied, reproduced, stored, sold, distributed, scanned, saved in any form of digital format or transmitted in any form digitally, without the written permission of the Publisher.

ISBN 9780860549659 paperback ISBN 9781407350844 e-format DOI https://doi.org/10.30861/9780860549659 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library BAR Publishing is the trading name of British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Ltd. British Archaeological Reports was first incorporated in 197 4 to publish the BAR Series, International and British. In 1992 Hadrian Books Ltd became part of the BAR group. This volume was originally published by Archaeopress in conjunction with British Archaeological Reports (Oxford) Ltd/ Hadrian Books Ltd, the Series principal publisher, in 1999. This present volume is published by BAR Publishing, 2016.

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