D.C. Haggis and M.S. Mook, “The Archaic Houses at Azoria,” in K.T. Glowacki and N. Vogeikoff-Brogan, eds., Stega: The Archaeology of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2011) 367-380. (original) (raw)
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