How Ancient Economies Fell Apart: Interview with Professor Sarah Murray
Tides of History
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Quantitative Approaches and Big Data
quantitative data is something you use in this book, and it's something you've talked a lot about in your other publications. What big data shows you most often is like, where the holes and the archaeological data are, right? D because our archaeological data are all this sort of weird construct when we think of the data as the data, right? If we have this many copper ingots, and we have these huge walls, thay were built by this many people already pi, what taken this long and this much effort? You need to really know, ike, what was in the sausage, or how the sausage was made, because otherwise i think you won't understand all he all
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