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Conditional Spatial Patterning: Beyond the Nearest Neighbor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Albertus Voorrips  and
John M. O'Shea
Albertus Voorrips
Affiliation:
Albert Egges van Giffen Instituut voor Prae- en Protohistorie, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
John M. O'Shea
Affiliation:
Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
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Abstract

This paper discusses a method for the analysis of spatial patterning which is based on aspects of the study of spatial autocorrelation. By means of computer simulation it is shown that the join count statistic (Cliff and Ord 1973; Moran 1950) has a wider validity than was presumed originally. Some archaeological applications from the analysis of a late Mesolithic cemetery in Karelia, USSR, are presented.

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American Antiquity , Volume 52 , Issue 3 , July 1987 , pp. 500 - 521
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1987

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