Curation, Statistics, and Settlement Studies: A Reply to Munday and Lincoln
- 1 April 1979
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 44 (2) , 352-359
- https://doi.org/10.2307/279091
Abstract
Munday and Lincoln have questioned my interpretations of prehistoric human ecology in Owens Valley, California, on the grounds that they may be an artifact of curation and prehistoric disturbance and on the grounds that statistical tests suggest that my interpretation of settlement data is incorrect. Careful consideration of their arguments shows that curation would not produce the effects they suggest and that they misuse statistical inference and settlement data. Review of the evidence supports my original views.Keywords
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