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Reconstructing Settlement Histories using Simulations and Calibration of Radiocarbon Dates: An Example from a Plankhouse Village in Southwestern British Columbia, Canada (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Patrick Dolan. Colin Grier.

Documenting the formation, growth, and decline of individual settlements is critical to explaining the development of settled village life. Radiocarbon dating is often the best, and in our case only, chronometric tool for establishing these temporal dynamics. Here, we explore several approaches to reconstructing the temporality of settlement at the Dionisio Point site, a precontact plankhouse village in southwestern British Columbia. Two decades of research at this 1,500 year-old...