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Early Formative pottery trade and the evolution of Mesoamerican civilisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Robert J. Sharer*
Affiliation:
*Department of Anthropology and The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA (Email: rsharer@sas.upenn.edu)

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2007

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