THE SOURCE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION, the ancient Near East, lies in a relatively small area of land where three continents-Asia, Africa, and Europe-come together Although our heritage is a long one, it is difficult to state with precision just when it began. Two quite different kinds of problems stand in the way of dating accurately the beginnings of our civilization. An obvious difficulty lies …
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are now essential to the work of an increasingly diverse range of organizations concerned with population characteristics, from local government and health authorities to major retailers and marketing agencies.rnrnThe period since the mid-1980s has seen massive growth in the field of GIS computer-based systems for the handling of geographically refer- enced …
working closely with scholars in such fields as anthropology,economics,statistics,and sociology,historians accurately map out the trends and events of our past,revealing spesific precedents for social scientistis to consider in planning future approaches to our social problem
Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences Fourth Series Vol. XXV, No. 16, pp. 377-420, pls. 37-46 November 15, 1946
Jae (1841)
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