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  1. Department of Anthropology and Archaeology and Earth Science Program, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada

    Andrea Freeman

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Freeman, A. (2017). Pre-Clovis Geoarchaeology. In: Gilbert, A.S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geoarchaeology. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4409-0_104

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