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Spinning or sailing?: the boat models from Eridu
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
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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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