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Testing Contemporaneity and Averaging Radiocarbon Dates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Austin Long and
Bruce Rippeteau
Austin Long
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona
Bruce Rippeteau
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University
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Abstract

Techniques for pragmatically interpreting arrays of radiocarbon dates are given. These include weighted averaging, statistical rejection of data, and the evaluation of contemporaneity. Commonly encountered situations are discussed with several actual examples to illustrate these procedures. This paper is Contribution No. 70, Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona.

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American Antiquity , Volume 39 , Issue 2Part1 , April 1974, pp. 205 - 215
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1974

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