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- ↑ "Irene Mounds". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2024-07-09.
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- 1 2 Ward, H. Trawick; Jr, R. P. Stephen Davis (2018-06-15). Time before History: The Archaeology of North Carolina. UNC Press Books. p. 129. ISBN 978-1-4696-4777-7.
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- ↑ Banks, Kimball M.; Czaplicki, Jon S. (2016-06-16). Dam Projects and the Growth of American Archaeology: The River Basin Surveys and the Interagency Archeological Salvage Program. Routledge. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-315-43072-0.
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