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Forbes, S. (2014). Time Since Death in Bioarchaeology and Human Osteology. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_218
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