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‘The beginning of the end’: progress and prospects in Old World chronology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

A. F. Harding  and
W. J. Tait
A. F. Harding
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, 46 Saddler Street, Durham DH1 3NU
W. J. Tait
Affiliation:
School of Oriental Studies, University of Durham, 46 Saddler Street, Durham DH1 3 NU
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New publications addressing the age-old question of the match between Egyptian, Aegean and European chronologies in later prehistory are reviewed by an egyptologist and a prehistorian.

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Antiquity , Volume 63 , Issue 238 , March 1989 , pp. 147 - 152
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1989

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