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Science 17 February 2006:
Vol. 311. no. 5763, pp. 958 - 959
DOI: 10.1126/science.1121556
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INFORMATION SCIENCE:
Enhanced: Cybertools and Archaeology

Dean R. Snow,1* Mark Gahegan,2 C. Lee Giles,3 Kenneth G. Hirth,1 George R. Milner,1Prasenjit Mitra,3 James Z. Wang3

In archeology and other historical sciences, diverse, widely distributed data include artifacts, notes, field logs, and other records. Future research requires that these archives be electronically accessible and user-friendly.

1Department of Anthropology, 2Department of Geography, 3School of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.

*Author for correspondence. E-mail: drs17{at}psu.edu

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