Size, complexity, and organizational variation: A comparative approach

Cross-Cultural Research

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-58

  Feinman, Gary M ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

Author keywords

integration; maximal community size; political complexity; scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651400139     PISSN: 10693971     EISSN: 15523578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1069397110383658     Document Type: Article

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