This collection's central thesis is straightforward: long-distance communication plays a key role in the cohesion and stability of early states and in turn, the

This collection's central thesis is straightforward: long-distance communication plays a key role in the cohesion and stability of early states and in turn, the

The Melammu Project, founded in 1998, organized five successive conferences and a sixth in 2008. Melammu Symposia 7 now represents a new dawn for the project pu

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