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Cleopatra's cosmetics and Hammurabi's Heineken

02-14-2008 · EurekAlert!

A pioneering new study in the February 2008 issue of Current Anthropology finds that branding, and our attachment to them, far predates modern capitalism, and indeed modern Western society.

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