Reasoning between the Lines: The Chronology of Phyletic Seriation

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Constructing Chronologies I: Stratification and Correlation" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The joint posteriors of Bayesian calibration can be analyzed with Allen's interval algebra to guide phyletic seriation, which comprehends the three modes of artifact change recognized by evolutionary archaeologists, including anagenesis, cladogenesis, and reticulation. Using the example of beads recovered from stratigraphically unrelated Anglo-Saxon female graves, reticulation is identified as the evolutionary mode with the strongest chronological signal. Now that the study of ancient DNA has put reticulation back on the agenda by documenting the movement of people across social boundaries, phyletic seriation guided by Allen's interval algebra adds a potentially useful tool to the archaeologist's kit.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Constructing Chronologies I: Stratification and Correlation

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Abstract Id(s): 32870