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Seasonal Slaughter Cycles and Urban Food Supply in the Colonial Chesapeake

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  1. Georgia Museum of Natural History, University of Georgia, Athens, Athens, GA 30602, USA

    Elizabeth J. Reitz

  2. Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611

    Sylvia J. Scudder

  3. Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3115

    C. Margaret Scarry

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Landon, D.B. (2008). Seasonal Slaughter Cycles and Urban Food Supply in the Colonial Chesapeake. In: Reitz, E.J., Scudder, S.J., Scarry, C.M. (eds) Case Studies in Environmental Archaeology. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71303-8_19

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