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Nine - From Rural Collectables to Global Commodities: Copper from Oman and Obsidian from Ethiopia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2018

Nicole Boivin
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Max-Planck-Institut für Menschheitsgeschichte, Germany
Michael D. Frachetti
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Washington University, St Louis
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Globalization in Prehistory
Contact, Exchange, and the 'People Without History'
, pp. 232 - 262
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