Impact of pre-Columbian “geoglyph” builders on Amazonian forests

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

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

• Publication date

  2017-02-06

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science, History

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  DOI 10.1073/pnas.1614359114PMID 28167791PMCID PMC5338430
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