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Winning at Olympia, page 26.
On recent Olympic archaeology and
athletic artifacts, see W. Coulson and
H. Kyrieleis, eds., Proceedingsof an
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Probing the Depths of Venice,
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(1992), pp. 913-916, and "More on
the Origins of Venice," Antiquity69
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Beirut
Digs Out, page 44.
are M. Raschka,
Recommended
"Salvaging a Scarred Land," Archaeology 47:1 (January/February
1994), pp. 64-67, and "Beirut DisArchaeology
48:2
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(March/April 1995), p. 18; and W.A.
Ward, "Archaeology in Lebanon in
the Twentieth Century," Biblical
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66-85.
Seeing with Maya Eyes, page
56. Recommended are E.C. Krupp,
"Springing Down the Banister," Sly
& Telescope
(March 1996), pp. 59-61;
A.F. Aveni, Skywatchers of Ancient
Mexico (Austin: University of Texas
Press, 1980);J. Kelly, An Archaeological
Guide to Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula
(Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1993); N. Hammond, Ancient
Maya Civilization(New Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers University Press, 1988).
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