Death Rituals and Social Order in the Ancient World: Death Shall Have No Dominion
- ISBN-10
- 1316373622
- ISBN-13
- 9781316373620
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015
- Author
- Colin Renfrew
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- 2015-10-31
- 460 pages
- Paperback
- Cambridge University Press
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