The emergence of social complexity: Why more than population size matters

Cooperation and Collective Action: Archaeological Perspectives

Volumn 9781607322085, Issue , 2012, Pages 35-56

  Feinman, Gary M ^a  

^a FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

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