Toward a networks and boundaries approach to early complex polities: The late Shang case

Current Anthropology

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 821-848

  Campbell, Roderick B ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 73349093118     PISSN: 00113204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/648398     Document Type: Article

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