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Corona-M, E., Goenaga, M.I.C. (2019). Extreme Environments in Archaeology: Disaster. In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_2864-1

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