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Recognition of Short Time Periods through Seriation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Clement W. Meighan
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Abstract

One aspect of the recent article by Drennan (1976) merits some additional discussion. This has to do with the units of time that can be discriminated by seriation methods. One advance claimed for the new method proposed is that it allows for time placement within 25 years or so, stated as “ … finer than most traditional seriation.” In an article published 17 years ago, I showed this degree of time discrimination, with a much simpler graphical method of seriation.

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American Antiquity , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , October 1977 , pp. 628 - 629
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1977

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