Cycles of Rise and Fall, Upsweeps and Collapses: Changes in the scale of settlements and polities since the Bronze Age
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This paper uses estimates of the sizes of settlements and polities to examine patterns thatneed to be understood in order to explain the growing scale of human socio-cultural in-
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تاریخ انتشار 2010