Holocene fire and occupation in Amazonia: records from two lake districts

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• Publication year

  2007

• Venue

  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

• Publication date

  2007-02-28

• Fields of study

  Geography, Medicine, Environmental Science, History

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1098/rstb.2006.1980PMID 17255030PMCID PMC2311425
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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