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  1. Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA

    Fiona Marshall

  2. Center for Comparative Archaeology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    José M. Capriles

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Marshall, F., Capriles, J.M. (2014). Animal Domestication and Pastoralism: Socio-Environmental Contexts. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_69

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