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Comment on Dempsey and Baumhoff's “The Statistical Use of Artifact Distributions to Establish Chronological Sequence”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

William D. Lipe
William D. Lipe*
Affiliation:
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
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Abstract

Because of its dependence on presence-and-absence counts, the Dempsey-Baumhoff ordering technique may not be as useful as the Robinson technique in two kinds of situations: (1) when artifact mixture has occurred, and (2) when the types used are based on continuously varying attributes and overlap one another to some extent because of normal variation in the attributes.

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American Antiquity , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , July 1964 , pp. 103 - 104
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1964

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