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11 - Objects in Crisis: Curation, Repair, and the Historicity of Things in the South Caucasus (1500–300 BCE)

from Part Four - Collapse and Resilience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2015

Geoff Emberling
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Social Theory in Archaeology and Ancient History
The Present and Future of Counternarratives
, pp. 231 - 258
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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