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Part III - Approaching Social Complexity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2017

Manuel Fernández-Götz
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University of Edinburgh
Dirk Krausse
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State Office for Cultural Heritage Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
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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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