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Artifacts as Social Interference: The Politics of Spatial Scale

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Wobst, H.M. (2006). Artifacts as Social Interference: The Politics of Spatial Scale. In: Lock, G., Molyneaux, B.L. (eds) Confronting Scale in Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-32773-8_5

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