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... Asian , Ural - Altaic , and Paleo- Asian peoples . It is generally agreed that shamanism evolved before the development of class society in the Neolithic Period and the Bronze Age ; that it was prac- ticed among peoples living in the ...
... Asian , Ural - Altaic , and Paleo- Asian peoples . It is generally agreed that shamanism evolved before the development of class society in the Neolithic Period and the Bronze Age ; that it was prac- ticed among peoples living in the ...
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... Asian chains . It is obvious that the Silurian , as well as the preceding Cambro - Ordovician , was an interval of ... Asia and Eurafrica plus the Near East are less certain , because of the paucity of data for the West Siberian Lowlands ...
... Asian chains . It is obvious that the Silurian , as well as the preceding Cambro - Ordovician , was an interval of ... Asia and Eurafrica plus the Near East are less certain , because of the paucity of data for the West Siberian Lowlands ...
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... Asia , as in Africa , " socialism " has become the ideology of new elites seeking modernization and rapid industriali- zation . Japan . Only in Japan , by far the most developed of Asian countries , have traditional socialist ...
... Asia , as in Africa , " socialism " has become the ideology of new elites seeking modernization and rapid industriali- zation . Japan . Only in Japan , by far the most developed of Asian countries , have traditional socialist ...
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