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Conolly, James and Lake, Mark (2006) Geographical Information Systems in Archaeology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Cope, Meghan S. and Elwood, Sarah (2009) Qualitative GIS: A Mixed Methods Approach.
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