Bibliography for The Demise of Utopia

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Sankalia, H.D. "The 'Cemetery H' Culture," Ancient Cities on the Indus, Gregory L. Possehl, (ed.), Pp. 323-327, Durham, North Carolina: Caroline Academic Press, 1979.

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