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Pathoecology of Two Ancestral Pueblo Villages

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Reinhard, K.J. (2008). Pathoecology of Two Ancestral Pueblo Villages. 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_10

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