Verify Citation - 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices
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Query: 3. Measures, Rules, and Prices
Verify Citation
Quoted text:
“The later millennia witnessed a chaos of systems of weights and measures,” wrote Mainkar[1] (1984: p. 141) of the Indus Valley; “they varied from place to place, market to market and even from commodity to commodity.”
Can someone with access to this text (V.B. Mainkar, “Metrology in the Indus Civilization,” in B.B. Lal and S.P. Gupta (eds.), Frontiers of the Indus Civilization [New Delhi: 1984], pp. 141–151.) verify the page number (141) and that the text in the quotation is accurate to the original source? In particular, please verify that there is no serial comma after the second “market.”
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- ↑ V.B. Mainkar, “Metrology in the Indus Civilization,” in B.B. Lal and S.P. Gupta (eds.), Frontiers of the Indus Civilization (New Delhi: 1984), pp. 141–151.
