Ball courts and political centralization in the Casas Grandes region

American Antiquity

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 732-746

  Whalen, Michael E ^a   Minnis, Paul E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TULSA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

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EID: 0000065344     PISSN: 00027316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/282014     Document Type: Article

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