Solving Meno’s Puzzle, Defeating Merlin’s Subterfuge: Bodies of Reference Knowledge and Archaeological Inference

Processual Archaeology: Exploring Analytical Strategies, Frames of Reference, and Culture Process

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 315-337

  Wandsnider, Luann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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