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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202304.0788.v3

Analysing the Shahr-i Sokhta Board Game and Suggested Rules

Sam Jelveh, Hossein Moradi

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Southeastern Iran; the Shahr-i Sokhta board game; the Royal Game of Ur; the game of twenty squares; the Jiroft board game

Online: 5 May 2023 (03:29:55 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202304.0788.v2

Analysing the Shahr-i Sokhta Board Game and Suggested Rules

Sam Jelveh, Hossein Moradi

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Southeastern Iran; the Shahr-i Sokhta board game; the Royal Game of Ur; the game of twenty squares; the Jiroft board game

Online: 28 April 2023 (05:28:25 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202304.0788.v1

Analysing the Shahr-i Sokhta Board Game and Suggested Rules

Sam Jelveh, Hossein Moradi

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Southeastern Iran; the Shahr-i Sokhta board game; the Royal Game of Ur; the game of twenty squares; the Jiroft board game

Online: 23 April 2023 (07:46:26 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202212.0136.v2

DIGITALESCAPE Project. Remote Sensing, New Technologies and Archaeology for the Preservation and Diffusion of the Cultural Heritage at Risk in the Sierra Sur and Sierra Morena Region

Antonio J. Ortiz Villarejo, José M. Delgado Barrado

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: SAR; Climate Change; GIS; Archaeological Chart; Risk Assessment; Digital Humanities.; Magaña

Online: 9 March 2023 (10:52:16 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202302.0501.v1

Can UNESCO Use BLOCKCHAIN To Ensure the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity? A Systemic Approach That Explains the Why, How, and Difficulties of Such a Venture

Nikolaos Zoannos, Pelagia Chourdaki, Nikitas Assimakopoulos

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Unesco; blockchain technologies (BT); decentralized (DLT); intangible cultural heritage (ICH); digital management; metadata models; data schemes; systems thinking; systemic approach; systemic risks

Online: 28 February 2023 (03:51:33 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202301.0367.v1

Re-Visiting Viking Vinland: II. 'Virtual Excavation' of 'Keelness', a Viking Shipwreck Site in North America

Royce Haynes, Matthew Franklin, Jamie Goosney, Denise Goosney

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Viking; Vinland; Keelness; remote imaging

Online: 20 January 2023 (01:48:14 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202301.0157.v1

Recycling and Reuse of Building Materials in a Historical Landscape. Viminacium Natural Brick (Serbia)

Emilija Nikolić, Ivana Delić-Nikolić, Mladen Jovičić, Ljiljana Miličić, Nevenka Mijatović

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Viminacium; natural brick; Roman mortar; historical landscape; the Danube; Roman construction; building material; recycling; reuse; sustainability

Online: 9 January 2023 (09:12:48 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202212.0456.v1

Community-Based Approaches in the Construction, Ownership, and Management of Water Infrastructures and the Development of Socio-Political Complexity Among the Chagga, Kilimanjaro, Tanzania

Valence Meriki Silayo, Innocent Pikirayi

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Chagga; water infrastructures; water management; sustainable farming; social complexity; community collaboration

Online: 23 December 2022 (09:00:41 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202212.0179.v1

“Animal-style art,” and special finds at Iron Age settlements in Southeastern Kazakhstan: Commodity Production, Trade, and Pathways during the Iron Age

Claudia Chang, Sergei Sergievich Ivanov

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: zoomorphic art; Saka nomadic tradition; horse and weaponry gear; etched carnelian beads; Iron Age agropastoral settlements; world-systems analysis

Online: 9 December 2022 (10:20:14 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202212.0137.v1

Re-Visiting Viking Vinland: I. Locating 'Keelness', a Viking Shipwreck Site in North America

Royce Haynes

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Viking; Vinland; Keelness; remote imaging

Online: 8 December 2022 (01:25:31 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202211.0357.v1

Freely Available LiDAR-based Digital Terrain Model (DTM) Uncovers the Heart of the Dacian World

Aurora Pețan, Alexandru Hegyi

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Remote Sensing; Archaeology; Lidar; Dacians; Romania

Online: 18 November 2022 (13:37:21 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202201.0284.v2

The Town as Agrarian Dissipative Structure: Cash Crops in the Medieval Kingdom of Galicia

Andrés Teira-Brión, Xurxo Constela Doce, Miguel Sartal Lorenzo, Dolores Gil Agra, Víctor Rúa Carril

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: urban; rural; millet; garden; orchard; Iberian Peninsula; High/Late Middle Ages

Online: 15 November 2022 (01:09:03 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202211.0043.v1

Archaeological Evidence for Community Resilience and Sustainability: A Bibliometric and Quantitative Review

Matthew J. Jacobson

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: archaeology; resilience; sustainability; citation analysis; collapse; climate change; agriculture; natural resources

Online: 2 November 2022 (04:19:44 CET)

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Preprint BRIEF REPORT | doi:10.20944/preprints202207.0189.v1

Water: Social Responsibility and the Concept of Common Good in the Ancient City of Pompeii

Adriana Rossi, Sara Gonizzi Barsanti

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: water partitioning system; water towers; fountains; Pompeian Regiones

Online: 13 July 2022 (04:41:28 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202205.0219.v1

Ancient Agricultural and Pastoral Landscapes on the South Side of Lake Issyk-Kul: Preliminary Surveys of the Juuku Valley and Lower Kizil Suu Valley, Archaeobotanical Results of Three Stratigraphic Profiles, and GIS Modeling of Iron Age in Lower Kizil Suu

Claudia . Chang, Sergeo Sergievich Ivanov, Perry Alan Tourtellotte, Robert N. Spengler III, Basira Mir-Makhamad, David Kramar

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: archaeological landscapes; Iron Age; Medieval period; agriculture; pastoralism; vertical zonation, Issyk-Kul Lake; archaeobotany; GIS mapping

Online: 17 May 2022 (03:29:22 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202112.0252.v2

Plant Economy in the Westernmost Territory of the Roman State Through Waste: The Wet Site of O Areal (Vigo, Spain)

Andrés Teira-Brión

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: waterlogged preservation; arboriculture; crop expansion; urban area; Iberian Peninsula

Online: 28 April 2022 (09:47:33 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202203.0210.v1

European Flat Oyster (Ostrea edulis, L.) In the Eastern Baltic as Evidence of Long-Distance Trade in Medieval and Early Modern Times

Lembi Lõugas, Inna Jürjo, Erki Russow

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: oysters; eastern Baltic Sea; zooarchaeology; archaeomalacology; written sources; archaeological finds; medieval; early modern

Online: 15 March 2022 (11:23:59 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202201.0218.v3

Landscape and Settlement over 4 Millennia on the South Side of Lake Issyk kul, Kyrgyzstan: Preliminary Results of Survey Research in 2019-2021

Claudia Chang, Sergei Sergievich .Ivanov, Perry Alan Tourtellotte

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Archaeological survey; Inner Tian Shan Mountain region; Iron Age; Medieval period; agropastoralism

Online: 3 March 2022 (07:44:09 CET)

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Preprint CONCEPT PAPER | doi:10.20944/preprints202202.0225.v1

Assessing Scientific Evidence of Singular Historic Events by Bayes Theorem

Christian Damgaard

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Bayes theorem; singular historic events

Online: 18 February 2022 (07:04:24 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202201.0218.v2

Landscape and Settlement over 4 millennia on the south side of Lake Issyk kul, Kyrgyzstan: Preliminary Results of Survey Research in 2019-2021

Claudia Chang, Sergei Sergievich Ivanov, Perry Alan Tourtellotte

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Archaeological survey; Inner Tian Shan Mountain region; Iron Age; Medieval period; agropastoralism

Online: 17 February 2022 (07:09:58 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202202.0098.v1

Paleoclimatic Interactions And Population Development At Tacna-peru: The Archaic Of Southern Peru And Its Unknowns

Gary Martín Osorio Soto

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Paleoclimatic variations in Southern Peru; Early human occupations in Tacna - Peru; Ethnoarchaeological analysis of the Populations in the Western Andes; Development of the Puquina; Culture in the Collisuyu territory

Online: 7 February 2022 (16:11:17 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202201.0284.v1

The Town as Agrarian Dissipative Structure: Cash Crops in the Medieval Kingdom of Galicia

Andrés Teira-Brión, Xurxo Constela Doce, Miguel Sartal Lorenzo, Dolores Gil Agra, Víctor Rúa Carril

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: urban; rural; millet; garden; orchard; Iberian Peninsula; High/Late Middle Ages

Online: 19 January 2022 (16:57:08 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202201.0218.v1

Landscape and Settlement over 4 Millennia on the South Side of Lake Issyk Kul, Kyrgyzstan: Preliminary Results of Survey Research in 2019-2021

Claudia Chang, Sergei Sergievich .Ivanov, Perry Alan Tourtellotte

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Archaeological survey; Inner Tian Shan Mountain region; Iron Age; Medieval period; agropastoralism

Online: 14 January 2022 (16:25:31 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202112.0252.v1

Plant Economy in the Westernmost Territory of the Roman State Through Waste: The Wet Site of O Areal (Vigo, Spain)

Andrés Teira-Brión

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: waterlogged preservation; arboriculture; crop expansion; urban area; Iberian Peninsula

Online: 15 December 2021 (11:08:46 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints202011.0335.v1

Sensing the Past: Perspectives on Remote Sensing and Collaborative Archaeology from Coastal California

Gabriel Sanchez, Michael Grone, Alec Apodaca, Scott Byram, Valentin Lopez, Roberta Jewett

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Amah Mutsun Tribal Band; Indigenous archaeology; Collaborative archaeology; Community-based participatory research; California archaeology; Indigenous stewardship

Online: 12 November 2020 (09:43:15 CET)

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Preprint REVIEW | doi:10.20944/preprints202003.0027.v1

Sometimes Hidden but Always There: Assumptions Behind Demographic Inference from Ancient DNA Data

Liisa Loog

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Population genetics; Statistical modelling; Demographic modelling; Ancient DNA; Population history; Archaeology

Online: 2 March 2020 (15:17:14 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201910.0011.v1

Trace Elements of Cu-(Fe)-Sulphide Inclusions in Bronze Age Copper Slags from South Urals and Kazakhstan: Ore Sources and Alloying Additions

Dmitry A. Artemyev, Maksim N. Ankushev

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: copper slag; sulphide; chalcocite; сovellite; bornite; LA-ICP-MS; South Ural; Kazakhstan; Bronze Age

Online: 2 October 2019 (03:32:26 CEST)

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Working Paper ARTICLE

The Choir Books of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice: Results of in Depth Non-Invasive Analyses

Paola Ricciardi, Anna Mazzinghi, Stefano Legnaioli, Chiara Ruberto, Lisa Castelli

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: 15th-century illuminated manuscripts; smalt; bismuth ink; non-invasive analyses; Raman spectroscopy; XRF mapping; UV-vis-NIR reflectance spectroscopy

Online: 12 June 2019 (12:03:01 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201906.0016.v1

The Choir Books of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice: Results of in Depth Non-Invasive Analyses

Paola Ricciardi, Anna Mazzinghi, Stefano Legnaioli, Chiara Ruberto, Lisa Castelli

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: 15th-century illuminated manuscripts; smalt; bismuth ink; non-invasive analyses; Raman spectroscopy; XRF mapping; UV-vis-NIR reflectance spectroscopy

Online: 3 June 2019 (10:04:02 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201902.0141.v1

Kazburun I Barrow Burial Ground: Barrow Complex of and Alakul Population of Bashkir Transurals Archeological Microdistrict: The Southern Urals Barrow Burial Ground of the Late Bronze Age: The Complex of Alakul and Srubnaya Crosscultural Actions

I. Shuteleva, Nikolai Shcherbakov, T. Leonova, K. Gorshkov

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: the Late Bronze Age; Bashkir Transurals; Srubnaya-Alacul type of monuments; interdisciplinary methods in archaeological investigation

Online: 15 February 2019 (11:16:37 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201812.0272.v1

The Sacred Landscape of the “Pyramids” of the Han Emperors: A Cognitive Approach to Sustainability

Giulio Magli

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Chinese pyramids; Han dynasty; Feng-Shui; protection of ancient landscapes

Online: 24 December 2018 (10:48:36 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0310.v2

Atlantis: a Grain of Truth Behind the Fiction?

Massimo Rapisarda

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Atlantis; Obsidian; Pantelleria; Strait of Sicily; Plato

Online: 3 October 2018 (13:07:09 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201807.0310.v1

Atlantis: a Grain of Truth Behind the Fiction?

Massimo Rapisarda

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Atlantis; Obsidian; Pantelleria; Strait of Sicily; Plato

Online: 17 July 2018 (12:01:43 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201806.0453.v1

Cultural Routes in Kynouria of Arcadia: Geospatial Database Design and Software Development for Web Mapping of the Spatio-Historical Information

Lampros Boukouvalas, Gregory Grigorakakis, Andreas Tsatsaris

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Antiquities; Monuments; Cultural Routes; Greece; Kynouria; GIS; Websites; Story maps.

Online: 27 June 2018 (16:00:03 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201804.0263.v1

Forensic Archaeometry Applied to Antiquities Trafficking: An Investigation at the Frontiers of Knowledge

Ignacio Rodríguez Temiño, Ana Yáñez, Susana Jorge Villar, Álvaro Reyes Mateos, Javier Rufino Rus, Jesús Salas Álvarez, Ana Carmen Lavín Berdonces

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: antiquities trafficking; archaeometry; archaeological looting; expert evidence; judicial proceedings

Online: 20 April 2018 (11:17:32 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201804.0057.v1

Auto-Extraction of Linear Archaeological Traces of Tuntian Irrigation Canals in Miran Site (China) from Gaofen-1 Satellite Imagery

Lei Luo, Xinyuan Wang, Rosa Lasaponara, Bo Xiang, Jing Zhen, Lanwei Zhu, Ruixia Yang, Decheng Liu, Chuansheng Liu

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: auto-extraction; remote sensing archaeology; tuntian; LATTICs; GF-1; Silk Road; Miran

Online: 4 April 2018 (11:56:47 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201712.0137.v1

Gimbutas’ Smile – An Archaeology Led, Archaeogenetic Model

Bob Kenyon

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Archaeology; Archaeogenetic Model; Neolithic; Chalcolithic; Bronze Age; Migration

Online: 19 December 2017 (15:49:22 CET)

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Migrations are much more important than currently recognised, for explaining important patterns observed in the European archaeology record – according to this archaeology led model. At a high level, they explain the introduction of different farming, monument building, the spread of metalworking and patterns of trade and exchange. This paper presents an archaeogenetic model based on a strategic review of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic archaeology of Europe, alongside a review of recently published ancient DNA data. The model is archaeology led. It takes archaeology themes and proposes migratory events to explain them. Ancient DNA data and further archaeology evidence is then used to test these proposed migrations- to reject or refine them. The model introduces a new and more strategic way of looking at archaeological cultures - that updates early 20th century approaches to studying archaeology cultures, and integrates with the detailed ‘post processual’ studies of the late 20th Century. The model consists of seven maps – each showing multiple migration events – with key evidence to support each migration map. It proposes a new category of a ‘Black Sea’ related population that makes a major genetic contribution to the Middle Neolithic of Europe. The proposed migrations provide an explanation for the observed patterns of archaeology, for example: • multiple Neolithic migrations that introduced, farming and metalworking into Europe; • a major ‘Black Sea’ related ‘Middle Neolithic’ migration that carried advanced knowledge of astronomy that can be recognised in a variety of types of monument from the Neolithic through to Bronze Age Europe; and, • migrations of related cultures (‘supercultures’) that explain patterns of trade and exchange in Bronze Age western Europe. The model also provides ancient DNA and archaeology based support for the key aspects of Childe’s ‘dawn of civilisation’ in Europe and Egypt and Gimbutas’ ‘Old Europe’ and “three waves of migration from the Steppe”.

Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201712.0041.v1

A Conceptual Approach to Urban Wellbeing from a Human Evolution Perspective

Gustav Milne

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: conceptual model; Evolutionary Determinants of Health; greened city; human evolution; Palaeolithic genome; urban greenspace; urban wellbeing; Western Lifestyle Diseases

Online: 7 December 2017 (07:15:37 CET)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201710.0070.v1

Semi-Automatic Detection of Indigenous Settlement Features on Hispaniola through Remote Sensing Data

Till F. Sonnemann, Douglas C. Comer, Jesse L. Patsolic, William P. Megarry, Eduardo Herrera Malatesta, Corinne L. Hofman

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: Remote sensing; direct detection; GIS mapping; Caribbean Archaeology; landscape archaeology

Online: 11 October 2017 (16:23:29 CEST)

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Preprint ARTICLE | doi:10.20944/preprints201609.0055.v1

Cultural Heritage Sites in Danger—Towards Automatic Damage Detection from Space

Daniele Cerra, Simon Plank, Vasiliki Lysandrou, Jiaojiao Tian

Subject: Arts And Humanities, Archaeology Keywords: change detection; Cultural Heritage; texture analysis

Online: 18 September 2016 (08:38:10 CEST)

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