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Donald A. Davidson, Robert L. Jones, Colin Renfrew, Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction and Evaluation: A Case Study from Orkney, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Vol. 1, No. 3, Man's Impact on Past Environments (1976), pp. 346-361
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