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Stothert, K.E. (2014). Las Vegas: Environmental Archaeology of an Early Site in Coastal Ecuador. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_2136
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