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Coles Creek fauna procurement strategies: subsistence diversity among late prehistoric hunter-gatherer-horticulturalists in the Lower Mississippi Valley

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Pages 54-73 | Received 07 Jul 2017, Accepted 22 Jun 2018, Published online: 13 Jul 2018

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