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Ambiguity and Debates on the Early Peopling of South America

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Gustavo G. Politis & Luciano Prates. (2021) Some Opinions about Monte Verde: Response to Dillehay (2019) and Dillehay, Pino, and Ocampo (2020). PaleoAmerica 7:1, pages 14-24.
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David Turnbull. (2019) Territorializing/decolonizing South American prehistory: Pedra Furada and the Cerutti Mastodon. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society 2:1, pages 127-148.
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