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Lithic technology and discard at Marki, Cyprus: consumer behaviour and site formation in the prehistoric Bronze Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jennifer M. Webb
Jennifer M. Webb*
Affiliation:
School of Archaeological and Historical Studies, La Trobe University, Bundoora VIC 3083, Australia, jenny.webb@latrobe.edu.au
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Abstract

Lithic studies all too often ignore the material of later prehistory. Here an exploration of ideas of curation and expediency offers a new insight into material from Bronze Age Cyprus.

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CyprusBronze Agelithicsassemblagecurationdiscardtools
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Antiquity , Volume 72 , Issue 278 , December 1998 , pp. 796 - 805
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1998

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