Archaeological Visualization: Towards an Archaeological Information Science (AISc)

Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 193-223

  Llobera, Marcos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeological theory; Computation; Computer science; Information science; Theory ladenness; Visualization

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960818013     PISSN: 10725369     EISSN: 15737764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10816-010-9098-4     Document Type: Review

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