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Floods, Famines and Emperors: El Niño and the Fate of Civilizationsby Brian Fagan

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Book ID
124221306
Publisher
The Society for American Archaeology
Year
1999
Tongue
Spanish
Weight
118 KB
Volume
10
Category
Article
ISSN
1045-6635

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