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Ancient households of the Americas : conceptualizing what households do / edited by John G.
Douglass and Nancy Gonlin.
      p. cm.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  ISBN 978-1-60732-173-6 (hardcover : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-60732-174-3 (ebook)
1. Indians—Dwellings. 2. Indians—Social life and customs. 3. Indians—Antiquities.
4. Households—America—History. 5. Home economics—America—History. 6. Social
archaeology—America—History. 7. Land settlement patterns—America—History. 8. Americax—
Antiquities. I. Douglass, John G., 1968– II. Gonlin, Nancy.
  E59.D9A63 2012
  970.004’97—dc23
                                                        2011051660

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