Population, sociopolitical simplification, and cultural evolution of Levantine Neolithic villages

Pattern and Process in Cultural Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 315-328

  Kuijt, Ian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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