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Michael E. Smith. 2023. Urban life in the distant past: the prehistory of energized crowding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-009-24904-1 hardback £100.

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Michael E. Smith. 2023. Urban life in the distant past: the prehistory of energized crowding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; 978-1-009-24904-1 hardback £100.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 October 2024

Michael Leadbetter*
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School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK

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