Intensities, interactions, and uncertainties: Some new approaches to archaeological distributions

Computational Approaches to Archaeological Spaces

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 27-52

  Bevan, Andrew ^a   Crema, Enrico ^a   Li, Xiuzhen ^a,b   Palmisano, Alessio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Museum of Emperor Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum   (China)

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EID: 85106519336     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781315431932-8     Document Type: Chapter

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