The Earliest Wheeled Transport: From the Atlantic Coast to the Caspian Sea
- ISBN-10
- 0801416043
- ISBN-13
- 9780801416040
- Category
- Technology & Engineering / General
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1983
- Author
- Stuart Piggott
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From the Atlantic Coast to the Caspian Sea Stuart Piggott. of Homer's time or in the far - off western Bronze Age , but ceremony , parade and display are another matter . Buchner ( 1979 ) has drawn attention to the legend , recorded by ...
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