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The Uruk Expansion: Culture Contact, Ideology and Middlemen

Kjetil Sundsdal Olaf Ryes vei 45, 5006, Bergen, NorwayCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 164-185 | Published online: 14 Dec 2011

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