Palaeoenvironmental changes in the Nazca-Palpa region, southern Peru - Alternative interpretations of geoarchaeological evidence

Archaeometry

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 595-602

  Hesse, Ralf ^a   Baade, J ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

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EID: 34548210821     PISSN: 0003813X     EISSN: 14754754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2007.00322.x     Document Type: Note

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