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Augereau A., Darmangeat C. (dir.) (2025) ‒The Archaeological Challenge of Gender, London, Routledge, 162 p. https://hal.science/TEMPS/hal-05365602.
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Augereau A., Darmangeat C. (2025) ‒ Prehistoric gender. An instrumentalized narrative, in Gender in the past. Trends, dead ends, and developments in the archaeology of gender and women, , Londres, Royaume-Uni, Routledge. https://hal.science/hal-05365632 [Accédé le 17 novembre 2025].
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Augereau A., Darmangeat C. (2025) ‒ Gender in the past. Trends, dead ends, and developments in the archaeology of gender and women, in Gender in the past. Trends, dead ends, and developments in the archaeology of gender and women, , Londres, Royaume-Uni, Routledge. https://hal.science/hal-05365651 [Accédé le 17 novembre 2025].
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