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Lead isotope analyses from Tell Abraq, United Arab Emirates: new data regarding the ‘tin problem’ in Western Asia

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Lloyd Weeks
Lloyd Weeks*
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Department of Near Eastern Archaeology, Main Quad A14, Sydney University 2006, Australia weeks@acl.archaeology.usyd.edu.au
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western AsiaArabiaTell Abraqtinbronzelead isotope analysisprehistory

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Antiquity , Volume 73 , Issue 279 , March 1999 , pp. 49 - 64
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