ARCL2037: Interpreting Archaeological Data Academic Year 2012/13 Undergraduate: Year 2 core: 0.5 units
Undergraduate: Year 2 core: 0.5 units
180 items
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Introductory readings 2 items
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Ethnoarchaeology in action - , 20010521661056,0521667798
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The early Mesoamerican village - c20091598744690,9781598744699
Book Essential This is recommended for purchase
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Lecture 1a: Introduction to course 1 item
No readings for this session
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Lecture 1b: Reasoning and research strategies: questions, data, interpretation 7 items
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Behavioral Archaeology and the "Pompeii Premise" - 1981
Article Electronic journal
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Archaeology: the loss of innocence -
Article Electronic journal
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Research strategy and formative Mesoamerica; a prayer for an endangered species -
Chapter Pages 1-11, 369-373
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Archaeological context and systemic context - 1972
Article Electronic journal
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For further reading 3 items
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A consideration of archaeological research design - 1964
Article Electronic journal
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The golden marshalltown - 1982
Article Electronic journal
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Aims in prehistoric archaeology - 1970
Article Electronic journal
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Lecture 2a: Site formation processes and their effects on archaeological data 6 items
General readings
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Chapter Essential Digitised reading 143-150, 199-217.
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A survey of disturbance processes in archaeological site formation - , 1978
Article Electronic journal
Case studies
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Dimensional analysis of behaviour and site structure: learning from Eskimo hunting stand - 1978
Article Electronic journal
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Where the garbage goes: Refuse disposal in the Maya Highlands - , 1983
Article Electronic journal
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Lecture 2b: Formation of artefact assemblages and effects on interpretation 5 items
General readings
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Raw material availability and organization of technology - 1994
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Forty-seven trips: a case study in the character of archaeological formation process -
Chapter Digitised reading
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Organization and formation processes: looking at curated technologies - 1979
Article Electronic journal
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Lecture 3a: Features, activity areas, floors, middens 9 items
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Analyzing household activities - ,
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Formation processes of house floor assemblages - ,
Chapter Digitised reading
Case studies
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Chapter Digitised reading
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Where the garbage goes: Refuse disposal in the Maya Highlands - , 1983
Article Electronic journal
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Chapter Digitised reading
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The archaeological visibility of storage: delineating storage from trash areas - 1999
Article Electronic journal
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Technical and social actors: flintknapping specialists and apprentices at Magdalenian etiolles - , 1990
Article Digitised reading
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Lecture 3b: Houses, house clusters and households 15 items
General readings (read 1)
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The early Mesoamerican village - c20091598744690,9781598744699
Book Essential Chapter 2
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Chapter Essential Available as an e-book through Scribd.com
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Ordering the world: perceptions of architecture, space and time - ,
Chapter Recommended Digitised reading
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Household Archaeology - , 1982
Article Electronic journal
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Household possessions and wealth in agrarian states: Implications for archaeology - 1987
Article Electronic journal
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Recent Research in the Archaeology of Architecture: Beyond the Foundations -
Article Essential Electronic journal
Case studies
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The early Mesoamerican village - c20091598744690,9781598744699
Book Read either the article by Winter (pp. 25-31) or the article by Flannery & Winter (pp. 34-47)
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Meaningful constructions: spatial and functional analysis of medieval buildings - 1992
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Article Recommended Electronic journal
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Public and private in the Roman house -
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The social origins of cooking and dining in early villages of western Asia - , , 2000
Article Electronic journal
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Lecture 4a: Interpreting funerary archaeology 13 items
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The archaeology of death and burial - 19990750917776
Book Essential Especially pages 21-44
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Burial archaeology: current research methods and developments - , , 19890860546713
Book Essential Available as an e-book. Click the PDF link to access.
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The meaning of death: funerary beliefs and the prehistorian -
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Mortuary Practices and the Study of Prehistoric Social Systems -
Article Essential Electronic journal
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Ethnography and Archaeological Interpretation of Funerary Remains - Oct., 1969
Article Essential Electronic journal
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Too many ancestors - 2002
Article Essential Electronic journal
Case Studies
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Grief and Burial in the American Southwest: The Role of Evolutionary Theory in the Interpretation of Mortuary Remains - Oct., 2001
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Mortuary practices, society and ideology: an ethnographical study -
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Age, gender and biological reality in the Early Bronze Age cemetery at Mokrin -
Chapter Recommended Digitised reading
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Anglo-Saxon deviant burial customs - 20090199544557,9780199544554
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The social organization at Branc - 1975
Article Recommended Electronic journal
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Lecture 4b: Human remains practical 6 items
General readings
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The Cambridge encyclopedia of human paleopathology - , , 19970521552036
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Digging up bones: the excavation, treatment and study of human skeletal remains - , 19810198585047,0198585101
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Standards for data collection from human skeletal remains: proceedings of a seminar at the Field Museum of Natural History, organized by Jonathan Haas - , , , , 19941563490757
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Dental anthropology - 19960521451949,0521564395
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Human osteology - , , c2012
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Lecture 5a: Regional analysis and settlement patterns 9 items
General readings
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Power in space: archaeological and geographical studies of the state -
Chapter Digitised reading
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Ethnoarchaeology in action - , 20010521661056,0521667798
Book Chapter 8
Case studies
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Willow smoke and dog's tails: hunter-gatherer settlement systems and archaeological site formation - 1980
Article Electronic journal
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The early Mesoamerican village - c20091598744690,9781598744699
Book Chapter 5, 6, part 1
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Shell and iron-ore mirror exchange in Formative Mesoamerica -
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Distribution of obsidian among households in two Oaxacan villages -
Chapter This is recommended for purchase
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Lecture 5b: Plant remains practical 4 items
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Pollen analysis - , , 19910632021764
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Phytoliths: a comprehensive guide for archaeologists and paleoecologists - c20060759103844,0759103852
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Ancient starch research - , 20061598740180
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Lecture 6a: Environmental data: scales of analysis 13 items
Scales of environmental analysis (read Bell and Walker and at least 1 other)
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Evidence for environmental change - ,
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Archaeology as human ecology: method and theory for a contextual approach - 19820521246520,0521288770
Book Chapters 12-14
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Environmental archaeology: principles and methods - , c20050750941537
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Biological evidence: chapter 4 - ,
Chapter Digitised reading; especially 4.1-4.5, 4.7 and 4.12
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For further reading 8 items
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Spatial scale in the pollen record -
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Viking settlement, climate and environmental change around the north Atlantic -
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Spatial scale and palynology: a commentary on Bradshaw -
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8th - 11th century economy and environment in York -
Chapter Recommended E-book. Click the 'Accept' option to access the text.
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Economy and environment in Saxon London -
Chapter Recommended E-book. Click the 'Accept' option to access the text.
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Environmental interpretation of archaeological charcoal - ,
Chapter Recommended Digitised reading
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Article Recommended Electronic journal
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Lecture 6b: Site catchment analysis 6 items
Site catchment analysis (read 1)
Case studies (read 2)
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Lecture 7: Archaeometallurgy 5 items
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Early metal mining and production - c19950748604987
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Metals -
Chapter Essential Digitised reading
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Coins, artefacts and isotopes - archaeometallurgy and archaeometry - , 2008
Article Essential Electronic journal
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Archaeology: theories, methods and practice - , 20089780500287194
Book Essential Chapter 8
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The early history of metallurgy in Europe - 19870582491959
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Lecture 8: Ceramics 9 items
General readings
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Ceramics -
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Pottery in archaeology - , , 19930521257158,0521445973
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Pottery analysis: a sourcebook - 19870226711188
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Recent ceramic analysis: 1. function, style and origins - 1996
Article Essential Electronic journal
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On the origins of pottery - 1999
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Between ritual and routine: interpreting prehistoric British pottery production and distribution -
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Size is important: Iron Age vessel capacities in central and southern England - ,
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Lecture 9: Interpreting organic data 8 items
General readings
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Objects: reluctant witnesses to the past - 20060415305888,0415305896,9780415305884,9780415305891
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Studies in ancient technology: Vol.8 - 1971
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Artifacts: an introduction to early materials and technology - 19890715623168
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Archaeological artefacts as material culture - 20070415320917,0415320925,9780415320917,9780415320924
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Ancient Egyptian materials and technology - , 20000521452570
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Lecture 10a: Exam Review session 1 item
In this session we review the salient points of the course as preparation for the examination.
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Lecture 10b: Interpreting textual data in archaeology 61 items
General readings (read two)
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Article Essential Electronic journal
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The Amarna letters from Canaan -
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The evidence for early writing: utilitarian or ceremonial? - , , 1995
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The botanical identity and transport of incense during the Egyptian New Kingdom - , 2000
Article Essential Electronic journal
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For further reading 7 items
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Between artifacts and texts: historical archaeology in global perspective - , c19980306455560
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Amarna diplomacy: the beginnings of international relations - , c20000801861993,0801871034,9780801871030
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Inscribed in clay: provenance study of the Amarna tablets and other ancient Near Eastern texts - , , , , 20049652660205
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The Amarna letters - c19920801842514
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Fakes, Forgeries and Biblical Scholarship. - , 2005
Article Recommended Electronic journal. Please see other articles in Forum also.
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The Egyptian Empire in Palestine: a reassessment - 1981
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Interaction, imitation and communication as expressed in style: the Ucayali experience -
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Peopling Catalhoyuk and its landscape -
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Assessing social information in material objects: how well do lithics measure up? -
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Interassemblage variability - the Mousterian and the functional argument -
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Style and changing relations between the individual and society -
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Struggling with pots in colonial South Carolina -
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All in the family: the impact of gender and family constructs on the study of prehistoric settlement -
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The organization of space in Pompeii -
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Behavioural conventions and archaeology: methods for the analysis of ancient architecture -
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Archaeological landscapes: constructed, conceptualised, ideational - ,
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Ethnoarchaeology needs a general theory of behavior - 1995-9
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Some aspects of prehistoric society in east-central Arizona -
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Introduction - ,
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Spatial organization in contemporary southwest Asian villages and archaeological sampling -
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Estimating the population of ancient Roman cities -
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On the structure of artifact typologies -
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A model for classification and typology - ,
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Archaeology as anthropology: a case study -
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The decoration of containers: an ethnographic and historical study -
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Gender and archaeological site formation: ethnoarchaeological studies in parts of Nigeria -
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The making and breaking of Shipibo-Conibo ceramics - ,
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The Study of Technological Organization - 1991
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Crises in global archaeology -
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Flintknapping: basic principles -
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Research design and sampling -
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The integration of methods: introduction -
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Theoretical and historical overview - ,
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An archaeological perspective - , 1972
Book Selected readings: pp.1-14,17-19,125-134.
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Politics, prismatic blades and Mesoamerican civilization -
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Soil analysis and archaeological site formation studies -
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An introduction to the types of tannage used on ethnographic leather -
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Egypt and her vassals: the geopolitical dimension -
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