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Budget Travel in the Mediterranean: A Methodology for Reconstructing Ancient Journeys through Least Cost Networks

By: Fiona Carroll and  Edward Carroll  
Open Access
|Mar 2022

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/jcaa.88 | Journal eISSN: 2514-8362
Language: English
Submitted on: Jan 12, 2022
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Accepted on: Mar 11, 2022
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Published on: Mar 31, 2022
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