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- ↑ Fieldnotes: Digital Resources. Archaeological Institute of America, retrieved 18 Oct 2012
- ↑ From Athens to Gordion: The Papers of a Memorial Symposium for Rodney S. Young, Held at the University Museum, the Third of May, 1975,
- ↑ Dissertations related to Mediterranean and Near Eastern Art and Archaeology (since 1898). the University of Pennsylvania, retrieved 18 Oct 2012
