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Book Review: Douglass W. Bailey, Prehistoric Figurines: Representation and Corporeality in the Neolithic. (London and New York: Routledge, 2005, xx + 243 pp., 64 + 5 figs, ISBN hbk 0 415 33151 X, pbk 0 415 33152 8)

Christina Marangou

eur j archaeol 11(2):283-285 (2008)

DOI: 10.1177/14619571080110020808
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