History meets palaeoscience: Consilience and collaboration in studying past societal responses to environmental change

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

• Publication date

  2018-03-12

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science, History

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1716912115PMID 29531084PMCID PMC5879668
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