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Science 20 May 2005:
Vol. 308. no. 5725, pp. 1115 - 1116
DOI: 10.1126/science.1111129
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ARCHAEOLOGY:
Clearing the View of Our Foundations

A review by David Wengrow

Myths of the Archaic State Evolution of the Earliest Cities, States, and Civilizations
by Norman Yoffee
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005. 291 pp. $75, £45. ISBN 0-521-81837-0. Paper, $34.99, £19.99. ISBN 0-521-52156-4.

Favoring considerations of social evolution over ethnogrpahic analogies, the author disputes the commonly held interpretation that the earliest states were large and despotically controlled.
The reviewer is at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PY, UK. E-mail: d.wengrow{at}ucl.ac.uk

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