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Scale as Artifact: GIS, Ecological Fallacy, and Archaeological Analysis

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Confronting Scale in Archaeology

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    Trevor M. Harris

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  1. Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, 36 Beaumont Street, Oxford, OX1 2PG, UK

    Gary Lock

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    Brian Leigh Molyneaux

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Harris, T.M. (2006). Scale as Artifact: GIS, Ecological Fallacy, and Archaeological Analysis. In: Lock, G., Molyneaux, B.L. (eds) Confronting Scale in Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA . https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-32773-8_4

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