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Chapter Seven - From the Neolithic to the Iron Age – Demography and Social Agglomeration: The Development of Centralized Control?

from Part II - The Development of Social Differentiation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2017

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Johannes Müller
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Manuel Fernández-Götz  and
Dirk Krausse
Manuel Fernández-Götz
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
Dirk Krausse
Affiliation:
State Office for Cultural Heritage Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany
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Eurasia at the Dawn of History
Urbanization and Social Change
 , pp. 106 - 124
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Print publication year: 2017

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