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Faith in the past: debating an archaeology of religion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David S. Whitley
Affiliation:
ICOMOS Rock Art Committee, 447 Third Street, Fillmore, CA 93015 USA, (Email: huitli@impulse.net)
James D. Keyser
Affiliation:
U.S. Forest Service, 1815 S.W. DeWitt Street, Portland, OR 97201 USA, (Email: jkeyser@fs.fed.us)

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