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Science 5 January 2007:
Vol. 315. no. 5808, pp. 42 - 43
DOI: 10.1126/science.1133393
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ANTHROPOLOGY:
All Is Not Always Lost When the Center Does Not Hold

Kathleen D. Morrison

After Collapse
The Regeneration of Complex Societies
Glenn M. Schwartz and John J. Nichols, Eds.
University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ, 2006. 295 pp. $50. ISBN 97808165096.
The contributors discuss a series of case studies from around the world to explore how some early complex societies reappeared after periods of decentralization and disruption.
The reviewer is in the Department of Anthropology and the Center for International Studies, University of Chicago, 5828 South University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. E-mail: morrison{at}uchicago.edu

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