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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
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31–34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, England. [email protected]
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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