Households, houses, neighborhoods and corporate villages: Modeling the Early Bronze Age as a house society

Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 79-102

  Chesson, Meredith S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BRONZE AGE; SOCIAL HISTORY; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

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