The Economy of Supply: Modeling Obsidian Procurement and Craft Provisioning at a central

Latin American Antiquity

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 435-457

  Hirth, Kenneth G ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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