Evaluation of Archaeological Sourcing Techniques: Reconsidering and Re-Deriving Hughes' Four-Fold Assessment Scheme

Geoarchaeology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 166-174

  Frahm, Ellery ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANALYTICAL METHOD; ARCHAEOLOGY; DATABASE; FOUNDATION; PRECISION;

EID: 84867348371     PISSN: 08836353     EISSN: 15206548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gea.21399     Document Type: Article

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