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  • Models for the millennium : Great Basin anthropology today / edited by Charlotte Beck

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    1999
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  • Bent Iron Rod

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    1957
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    6/7/52
  • Pecking-Stone

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    3 Feb 1964
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    1961
  • An anthropology for contemporaneous worlds / Marc Augé ; translated by Amy Jacobs

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    1999
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    1957
  • Scraper fragment

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    1965
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    25 Jul 1956
  • Pot Sherd

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    19 Mar 1986
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    1946 to 1965
  • Homo neanderthalensis

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    1848
  • Kent point

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    17 Jul 2023
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    3 Mar 1984

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