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Archaeology and Paleogeography of Beringia. A View from Siberia: Review of John F Hoffecker and Scott. A Elias Human Ecology of Beringia. 2007. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN: 978-0-231-13060-8; 290 pages with 79 figures and 11 tables. List price $45 US, hardback.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Yaroslav V Kuzmin
Yaroslav V Kuzmin*
Affiliation:
Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Koptyug Ave. 3, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia. Email: kuzmin@fulbrightmail.org
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Radiocarbon , Volume 50 , Issue 3 , 2008 , pp. 473 - 477
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