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An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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The geomagnetic field variations on the continent of Africa are still largely undeciphered for the past two millennia. In spite of archaeological artefacts being reliable recorders of the ancient geomagnetic f...
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