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Computer applications for the All American Pipeline Project

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Fred Plog  and
David L. Carlson
Fred Plog
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology & Anthropology, New Mexico State University, Box 5700, Las Cruces NM 88003, USA
David L. Carlson
Affiliation:
Anthropology Department, Texas A & M University, College Station TX 77843–4352, USA
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Most large-scale excavation projects are computerized, more-or-less, now in their methods of data recording. Here is described one which is computerized with more conviction and on a larger scale than most, with reflections on what that can and should amount to.

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Antiquity , Volume 63 , Issue 239 , June 1989 , pp. 258 - 267
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1989

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