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J.-H. Rosny, aîné : romans préhistoriques
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ISBN: 222104651X Year: 1985 Publisher: Paris : R. Laffont,

Behaviour behind bones : the zooarchaeology of ritual, religion, status and identity.
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ISBN: 1842171135 Year: 2004 Publisher: Oxford Oxbow

Methodology and African prehistory.
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ISBN: 0435948075 0435948083 9231017071 0520039122 9789231017070 9780435948085 9780520039124 Year: 1981 Publisher: London Heinemann

La préhistoire : à la recherche du paradis perdu
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ISBN: 2020215675 2262002673 9782020215671 9782262002671 Year: 1982 Volume: H182 Publisher: Paris : Perrin,

Understanding early civilizations : a comparative study
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ISBN: 9780521705455 9780521822459 0521822459 9780511840630 0521705452 1316023826 1316022625 0511840632 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book offers the first detailed comparative study of the seven best-documented early civilizations: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Shang China, the Aztecs and adjacent peoples in the Valley of Mexico, the Classic Maya, the Inka, and the Yoruba. Unlike previous studies, equal attention is paid to similarities and differences in their sociopolitical organization, economic systems, religion, and culture. Many of this study's findings are surprising and provocative. Agricultural systems, technologies, and economic behaviour turn out to have been far more diverse than was expected. These findings and many others challenge not only current understandings of early civilizations but also the theoretical foundations of modern archaeology and anthropology. The key to understanding early civilizations lies not in their historical connections but in what they can tell us about similarities and differences in human behaviour.


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Ten thousand years of inequality : the archaeology of wealth differences
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ISBN: 9780816537747 9780816539444 0816537747 Year: 2018 Publisher: Tucson: University of Arizona press,

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