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Fernanda Neubauer. Fire-Cracked Rock Analysis: A Guide to Function, Cooking and Interpretation (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2024, 249pp., 86 colour figs, hbk, ISBN 978-3-031-64824-6)

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Fernanda Neubauer. Fire-Cracked Rock Analysis: A Guide to Function, Cooking and Interpretation (Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2024, 249pp., 86 colour figs, hbk, ISBN 978-3-031-64824-6)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 October 2025

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European Journal of Archaeology , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , November 2025 , pp. 519 - 521
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