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and necessary to a regional frame of tefersncn
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ved as any in archaeology, so much
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that because of the pre~
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wall that is required ta accommodate low-density areas is a inerease the area,
‘within which the counts are derived.
proposed here, an even more direct approach may be
facts over 4 region, one can explicitly
basis of density within each environmental zone.
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