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Brian Hayden. The Power of Ritual in Prehistory: Secret Societies and Origins of Social Complexity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 410pp., 64 illustr., hbk, ISBN 978-1-10-857207-1)

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Brian Hayden. The Power of Ritual in Prehistory: Secret Societies and Origins of Social Complexity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 410pp., 64 illustr., hbk, ISBN 978-1-10-857207-1)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2019

Johan Ling*
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Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

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