The Anthropocene – not only about climate change

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  • Brit Solli Museum of Cultural History, Department of Archaeology, University of Oslo

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https://doi.org/10.37718/CSA.2018.04

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2018-12-28

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Solli, B. (2018) “The Anthropocene – not only about climate change”, Current Swedish Archaeology, 26(1), pp. 40–49. doi: 10.37718/CSA.2018.04.

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