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Will the data drive the model? A further response to Euan MacKie

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Gordon J. Barclay  and
Clive Ruggles
Gordon J. Barclay
Affiliation:
Department of Environmental Science, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland. g.j.barclay@stir.ac.uk
Clive Ruggles
Affiliation:
School of Archaeological Studies, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, England. rug@le.ac.uk
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Antiquity , Volume 76 , Issue 293 , September 2002 , pp. 668 - 671
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2002

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