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Climate Change and Archaeology: The Holocene History Of El Niño On The Coast Of Peru

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Andrus, C.F.T., Sandweiss, D.H., Reitz, E.J. (2008). Climate Change and Archaeology: The Holocene History Of El Niño On The Coast Of Peru. 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_8

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