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Our first meeting was a bit awkward. One of us is an archaeologist who studies how past peoples interacted with their environments. Two of us are geophysicists who investigate interactions between ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) When we first got together, we wondered whether our unconventional project, linking ...