The Uruk Expansion: Cross-cultural Exchange in Early Mesopotamian Civilization [with Comments and Reply]

1989/12/01 by Guillermo Algaze, Burchard Brenties, A. Bernard Knapp +10 · 139 citations
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paper · doi:10.1086/203786

published in Current Anthropology 30(5), 571-608 (University of Chicago Press)

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