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Enhancing archaeology's role in addressing grand challenges needs more reflection on known unknowns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2021

Paul J. Lane
Paul J. Lane*
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Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK (✉ pjl29@cam.ac.uk)
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Antiquity , Volume 95 , Issue 382 , August 2021 , pp. 1078 - 1080
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Antiquity Publications Ltd.

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