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Pets and Camp Followers in the West Indies

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Wing, E.S. (2008). Pets and Camp Followers in the West Indies. 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_21

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