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Elusive Phoenicians

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Nicholas Vella
Nicholas Vella*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Bristol, 11 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TB, England. E-mail: Nick.Vella@bris.ac.uk
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Abstract

One hundred and thirty-two years after a first survey of their archaeology appeared, the Phoenicians remain the forgotten people of the ancient Mediterranean world. The October 1995 Cádiz conference provides occasion to review Phoenician studies then and now.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 268 , June 1996, pp. 245 - 250
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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