The communicative potential of theran murals in late Bronze Age Akrotiri: Applying viewshed analysis in 3D townscapes

Oxford Journal of Archaeology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 247-272

  Paliou, Eleftheria ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; ARTIFACT; BRONZE AGE; COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GIS; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE;

CYCLADAS; GREECE; SANTORIN; SOUTHERN AEGEAN;

THERA;

EID: 79960403335     PISSN: 02625253     EISSN: 14680092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.2011.00368.x     Document Type: Article

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