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Chapter Eight - Lessons Learned from the Uninformative Use of Network Science Techniques

An Exploratory Analysis of Tableware Distribution in the Roman Eastern Mediterranean*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2018

Justin Leidwanger
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Stanford University, California
Carl Knappett
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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