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Statistical Techniques for the Discovery of Artifact Types

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Albert C. Spaulding
Albert C. Spaulding*
Affiliation:
Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Within recent years there appears to have been an increasing awareness on the part of archaeologists that certain statistical techniques offer economical methods of extracting information of cultural significance from archaeological data. The discussions of Kroeber (1940), Robinson (1951), and Brainerd (1951) have appeared in American Antiquity, and the last two even evoked a comment (Lehmer, 1951). In addition to these papers, which are primarily devoted to exposition of method, a considerable number of special applications can be found in the literature. Archaeological research inevitably brings the researcher face to face with the problems of ordering and comparing quantities of data and of sampling error. There seems little doubt that the best approach to these problems involves a search of statistical literature for appropriate methods.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , April 1953 , pp. 305 - 313
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1953

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