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Further frontiers in GIS: extending spatial analysis to textual sources in archaeology

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Further frontiers in GIS: extending spatial analysis to textual sources in archaeology. / Murrieta-Flores, Patricia; Gregory, Ian.
In: Open Archaeology, Vol. 1, No. 1, 05.2015, p. 166-175.

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Murrieta-Flores P, Gregory I. Further frontiers in GIS: extending spatial analysis to textual sources in archaeology. Open Archaeology. 2015 May;1(1):166-175. Epub 2015 May 20. doi: 10.1515/opar-2015-0010

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