Agency in archaeology: Paradigm or platitude?

Agency in Archaeology

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3-18

  Dobres, Marcia Anne ^a,b   Robb, John E ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d CNR IBIM IFC Clinical Epidemiology and Physiopathology of Renal Diseases and Hypertension of Reggio Calabria   (Italy)

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