THE SOURCE: “Can the West Save Africa?” by William Easterly, in Journal of Economic Literature, June 2009.
THE SOURCE: “Evidence for Food Storage and Predomestication Granaries 11,000 Years Ago in the Jordan Valley” by Ian Kuijt and Bill Finlayson, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 7, 2009.
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