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Land-Use Changes in Owens Valley Prehistory: A Matter of Statistical Inference

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

M. C. Hall
M. C. Hall*
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Department of Anthropology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521
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Abstract

In a recent exchange Munday and Lincoln (1979) and Bettinger (1979a) debate the conclusions reached by Bettinger (1977) regarding diachronic variation in the prehistoric land-use patterns of Owens Valley, California. There are several related sources of error in Bettinger's quantitative and statistical operations that were not clarified or discussed in the published arguments. An evaluation of their potential effect on the analysis conducted by Bettinger (1975) lends considerable support to the basic assertion of Munday and Lincoln that Bettinger (1977) did not fully appreciate alternative explanations of the spatial and temporal variation he observed in site and artifact distributions in Owens Valley. Two of the three "adaptive shifts" in land-use patterns proposed by Bettinger are not supported by the published data.

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American Antiquity , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , July 1981 , pp. 648 - 656
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1981

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