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The Earliest Near Eastern Spoked Wheels and their Chronology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 May 2014

P. R. S. Moorey
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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 34 , February 1969 , pp. 430 - 432
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18 A. Salonen, op. cit., p. 120.