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Why teach Heisenberg to archaeologists?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

A. M. Pollard
A. M. Pollard*
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Department of Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, Bradford, BD7 1DP, England
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The archaeological department at the University of Bradford is the only one in Britain to be called a Department of Archaeological Sciences. Its Professor–whose own background was in physics and then chemistry before archaeology–explores the relationship of archaeology to the sciences in a contribution adapted from his talk given at Harvard University on Science and archaeology.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 263 , June 1995, pp. 242 - 247
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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