Identifying necessity and sufficiency relationships in skeletal-part representation using fuzzy-set theory

American Antiquity

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 131-140

  Beaver, Joseph E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 21344446407     PISSN: 00027316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4128351     Document Type: Article

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