W. David Kingery, Pamela B. Vandiver, Martha Prickett, The Beginnings of Pyrotechnology, Part II: Production and Use of Lime and Gypsum Plaster in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic near East, Journal of Field Archaeology, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Summer, 1988), pp. 219-244
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