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Further Reading

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    Paul C. Buckland

  3. Palaeoentolab, Umeå, Sweden

    Fredrik Olsson

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Buckland, P.I., Buckland, P.C., Olsson, F. (2018). Paleoentomology: Insects and Other Arthropods in Environmental Archaeology. In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_2333-2

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