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The last 25 years have seen major advances in the application of non-destructive techniques to the study of archaeological sites. They have the advantage of making it possible to more rapidly assess the character and extent of larger sites and landscapes without recourse to large-scale excavation, which is costly and destructive. They have thus made it much easier to develop more incisive strategies for research, management and protection of a range of sites. This is particularly true of the larger settlements and towns of the later Protohistoric and Classical periods in southern Europe, which have traditionally been investigated in piecemeal fashion by small-scale excavations.
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Keay, S. (2013). Conclusions. In: Corsi, C., Slapšak, B., Vermeulen, F. (eds) Good Practice in Archaeological Diagnostics. Natural Science in Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01784-6_21
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