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Three - The Creation of the Assyrian Heartland

New Data from the ‘Land behind Nineveh’

from I - The Transformation of Rural Societies and Landscapes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2018

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Daniele Morandi Bonacossi
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The Archaeology of Imperial Landscapes
A Comparative Study of Empires in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean World
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