Özfırat, A., Işıklı, M., Genç, B. (Eds.), Changes and Developments in Burial Customs in Eastern Anatolia-Southern Caucasus and its Vicinity from the Late Chalcolithic Period to the Late Iron Age, Full text: http://www.tubaar.tuba.gov.tr/index.php/tubaar/issue/view/50 (original) (raw)
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