Labor Costs for Prehistoric Earthwork Construction: Experimental and Archaeological Insights from the Lower Yangzi Basin, China
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عنوان ژورنال: American Antiquity
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0002-7316,2325-5064
DOI: 10.7183/0002-7316.79.4.67