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Spinning or sailing?: the boat models from Eridu

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Janine Bourriau and
Joan Oates
Janine Bourriau
Affiliation:
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3ER, England
Joan Oates
Affiliation:
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3ER, England
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More on whether the prehistoric pottery vessels from Eridu, in Mesopotamia, are models of precocious boats, or as was argued in a recent ANTIQUITY, spinning bowls.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 273 , September 1997, pp. 719 - 721
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997 

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