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A Trend-Surface Analysis of Central Plains Radiocarbon Dates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Donna C. Roper
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Abstract

For the past several decades, students of the Central Plains tradition have postulated a south-to-north trend of movement by the bearers of this tradition. Such a pattern should be detectable by means of a trend-surface analysis of the available radiocarbon dates. This paper reports such an analysis. The trend is found to be largely supported by the chronological evidence.

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American Antiquity , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , April 1976, pp. 181 - 189
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1976

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