Archaeology, marine ecology, and human impacts on marine environments

Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems: A Global Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-20

  Erlandson, Jon M ^a   Rick, Torben C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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