Scale as artifact: GIS, ecological fallacy, and archaeological analysis

Confronting Scale in Archaeology: Issues of Theory and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 39-53

  Harris, Trevor M ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/0-387-32773-8_4     Document Type: Chapter

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