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Costall, A. (2006). On Being the Right Size: Affordances and the Meaning of Scale. In: Lock, G., Molyneaux, B.L. (eds) Confronting Scale in Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-32773-8_2
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