Statistical Techniques for the Discovery of Artifact Types

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 Brain...

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Published in:American antiquity 1953-04, Vol.18 (4), p.305-313
Main Author: Spaulding, Albert C.
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Archaeological methods
Coefficients
Degrees of freedom
Material culture
Population estimates
Pottery
Sampling errors
Smooth surfaces
Surface finishing
Tempering
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