Obsidian Dating (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Don Grey.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Kintigh. George Cowgill.

A common archaeological task is the assignment of starting and ending dates to a temporal interval given a set of age-determinations that contain inherent measurement errors, such as radiocarbon or obsidian hydration dates. Intuitive methods of inferring these intervals do not correctly or systematically account for the expectable effects of sampling error when estimating interval lengths. We propose way to think about and examine the expectable joint effects of the error associated with...