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> I am Kris Nackaerts, student at KUL (Catholic University in Louvain, 
> Belgium).  I do a thesis about sight-distances from defence towers around a 
> site in Turkey etc.  I will do this with GIS-software.  A friend told me of 
> some french researchers used GRASS for a similar problem (the position of 
> roman roads in function of the visibility from roman forts...or something 
> like this).  Is there anyone who can give me more information about this and 
> about other applications of GIS in archaeology.
> 
> Kris Nackaerts
> e-mail:kris.nackaerts at agr.kuleuven.ac.be
> 
Hi Kris,
        you're probably looking for one of Scott Madry's publications. I
know he's at the University of Purdue. Hopefully you can find him, or it, 
using this information.

        Martijn

P. Martijn van Leusen -------------------------------------------------------+
Leverhulme Research Fellow, The Wroxeter Hinterland Project                  |
University of Birmingham Field Archaeology Unit                              |
Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT                                                |
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