Material Culture: Current Problems

A Companion to Social Archaeology

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 179-194

  Buchli, Victor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Archaeology; Material culture; Social evolution; Social progress; Technological evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 50449099267     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470693605.ch8     Document Type: Chapter

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