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Simo Parpola, Asko Parpola, Robert H. Brunswig, Jr., The Meluḫḫa Village: Evidence of Acculturation of Harappan Traders in Late Third Millennium Mesopotamia?, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 20, No. 2 (May, 1977), pp. 129-165
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