Prestige goods and the formation of political hierarchy: A costly signaling model

Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 265-276

  Plourde, Aimée M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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