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Palaeoenvironments and economy of Iron Age Saka-Wusun agro-pastoralists in southeastern Kazakhstan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Arlene Miller Rosen ,
Claudia Chang  and
Fedor Pavlovich Grigoriev
Arlene Miller Rosen
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31–34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, England. a.rosen@ucl.ac.uk
Claudia Chang
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar VA 24595, USA
Fedor Pavlovich Grigoriev
Affiliation:
Archaeology Division, Kazakh Central State Museum, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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KazakhstanCentral Asiageoarchaeologyenvironmental archaeologyphyolithsnomadsagriculture
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Antiquity , Volume 74 , Issue 285 , September 2000 , pp. 611 - 623
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2000

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