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My purpose in this paper is to address the question - how far today is the scientific field archaeologist, utilizing essentially surface remains, able to approach the complex behaviour of past peoples in space which the imaginative reconstructions of Classicizing painters such as Lorraine and Poussin present to us? (Fig. 1) I shall be using mainly Greek examples, to answer that challenge.
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Bintliff, J. (1997). The Role of Science in Archaeological Regional Surface Artefact Survey. In: Dirksen, D., von Bally, G. (eds) Optical Technologies in the Humanities. Series of the International Society on Optics Within Life Sciences, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60872-8_2
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