Pre-Columbian settlement dynamics in the Central Amazon

Amazonian Dark Earths: Wim Sombroek's Vision

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 15-31

  Rebellato, L ^a   Woods, W I ^a   Neves, E G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9031-8_2     Document Type: Chapter

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