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Perry, L. (2020). Archaeobotany of Early Agriculture: Microbotanical Analysis. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_2165
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