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The Fiber Revolution: Textile Extensification, Alienation, and Social Stratification in AncientMesopotamia [and Comments and Reply]Author(s): Joy McCorriston, Susan Toby Evans, J. -L. Huot, Mario Liverani, KathleenMorrison, Dan Potts, Andrew Sherratt, Rita P. Wright, Richard L. ZettlerSource: Current Anthropology, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Aug. - Oct., 1997), pp. 517-549Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of Wenner-Gren Foundation forAnthropological ResearchStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2744365Accessed: 22/01/2009 14:51

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