Temporal scales and archaeological landscapes from the eastern desert of australia and intermontane North America

Confronting Scale in Archaeology: Issues of Theory and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 183-202

  Holdaway, Simon J ^a   Wandsnider, Luann ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/0-387-32773-8_13     Document Type: Chapter

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