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Rethinking the Sacred Landscape

Minoan Palaces in a Georitual Framework of Natural Features on Crete

Dennis Doxtater
Landscape Journal, March 2009, 28 (1) 1-21; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/lj.28.1.1
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