Worked sheep and gazelle foot bones as possible figurative representations: A 12,000 year old cluster of artifacts from Shubayqa 6, Jordan Levant

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Worked sheep and gazelle foot bones as possible figurative representations : A 12,000 year old cluster of artifacts from Shubayqa 6, Jordan Levant. / Yeomans, Lisa; Gelting, Unn; Killackey, Kathryn; Pantos, Alexis; Salicath Halvorsen, Asta; Richter, Tobias.

In: Levant: The Journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant, Vol. 53, No. 2, 2021, p. 123-138.

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Yeomans, L, Gelting, U, Killackey, K, Pantos, A, Salicath Halvorsen, A & Richter, T 2021, 'Worked sheep and gazelle foot bones as possible figurative representations: A 12,000 year old cluster of artifacts from Shubayqa 6, Jordan Levant', Levant: The Journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 123-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2021.1974206

APA

Yeomans, L., Gelting, U., Killackey, K., Pantos, A., Salicath Halvorsen, A., & Richter, T. (2021). Worked sheep and gazelle foot bones as possible figurative representations: A 12,000 year old cluster of artifacts from Shubayqa 6, Jordan Levant. Levant: The Journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant, 53(2), 123-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2021.1974206

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Yeomans L, Gelting U, Killackey K, Pantos A, Salicath Halvorsen A, Richter T. Worked sheep and gazelle foot bones as possible figurative representations: A 12,000 year old cluster of artifacts from Shubayqa 6, Jordan Levant. Levant: The Journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant. 2021;53(2):123-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2021.1974206

Author

Yeomans, Lisa ; Gelting, Unn ; Killackey, Kathryn ; Pantos, Alexis ; Salicath Halvorsen, Asta ; Richter, Tobias. / Worked sheep and gazelle foot bones as possible figurative representations : A 12,000 year old cluster of artifacts from Shubayqa 6, Jordan Levant. In: Levant: The Journal of the Council for British Research in the Levant. 2021 ; Vol. 53, No. 2. pp. 123-138.

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