Pottery Analyses as the Basis for Studying Migrations. The Case of Danubian Pottery Groups from the End of 2nd Millennium BC, (in:) Migration in Bronze and Early Iron Age Europe, PA 63 (2010), Kraków. (original) (raw)
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