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Part III - Approaching Social Complexity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2017

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Manuel Fernández-Götz
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Eurasia at the Dawn of History
Urbanization and Social Change
 , pp. 125 - 150
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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