Towards a better explanation of hereditary inequality: A critical assessment of natural and historic human agents

Agency in Archaeology

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 92-112

  Clark, John E ^a  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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