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Names: Blanton, Richard E., honouree. | Fargher, Lane, editor. | Heredia Espinoza, Verenice Y., editor.
Title: Alternative pathways to complexity : a collection of essays on architecture, economics, power, and cross-cultural analysis / edited by Lane F. Fargher and Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza.
Description: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2016] | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Includes bibliographical references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016020071 | ISBN 9781607325321 (cloth) | ISBN 9781607325338 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Social archaeology. | Economic anthropology. | Architecture and archaeology. | Archaeology—Cross-cultural studies. | Technological complexity.
Classification: LCC CC72.4 .A47 2016 | DDC 930.1—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016020071
Cover illustration: Detail of Prosperous Suzhou by Xu Yang. Public domain image.