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Complex Chiefdoms: Precursor of the State or Its Analogue?

P. 195–232.
Grinin L. E.
Language: English
Keywords: transitionChiefdomssociopolitical systemsquasi-castes
Publication based on the results of:
Near and Middle East in the context of the global phase transition (2017)

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Chiefdoms: Yesterday and Today
Chiefdoms: Yesterday and Today
Carneiro R., Grinin L. E., Korotayev A., Claessen H. ., Kradin N., Gibson D. B., Timothy K. E., Skalnik P., Chabal P., Feinman G. NY: Eliot Werner Publications Incorporated, 2017.
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