Patterns of violence in prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies of coastal southern california

Troubled Times: Violence and Warfare in the Past

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 77-109

  Lambert, Patricia M ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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