Social Evolution Today

Journal of World Prehistory

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 201-212

  Shennan, Stephen ^a  

^a Institute of Archaeology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Childe; New institutional economics; Origins of agriculture; Social evolution; Wealth inheritance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGRICULTURE; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARCHAEOLOGY; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 80052038862     PISSN: 08927537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10963-011-9048-4     Document Type: Article

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