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- ↑ Hawkes, Sonia Chadwick (1994). "Longbridge Deverill Cow Down, Wiltshire, House 3: A Major Round House of the Early Iron Age". Oxford Journal of Archaeology. 13 (1): 49–69. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0092.1994.tb00031.x. ISSN 0262-5253.
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- ↑ Jamieson, Andrew (12 October 2017). "Scholar brought the ancient world to life". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12 November 2017.
- ↑ "Garfinkel, Yosef". worldcat.org. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
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