Land-Use Changes in Owens Valley Prehistory
A Matter of Statistical Inference
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2574919 |
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| Authors | M C Hall (University of California, Riverside, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 648-656 |
| Publication date | 1981-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/280612 |
| OpenAlex | W2332833265 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
In a recent exchange Munday and Lincoln (1979) and Bettinger (1979a) debate the conclusions reached by Bettinger (1977) regarding diachronic variation in the prehistoric land-use patterns of Owens Valley, California. There are several related sources of error in Bettinger's quantitative and statistical operations that were not clarified or discussed in the published arguments. An evaluation of their potential effect on the analysis conducted by Bettinger (1975) lends considerable support to the basic assertion of Munday and Lincoln that Bettinger (1977) did not fully appreciate alternative explanations of the spatial and temporal variation he observed in site and artifact distributions in Owens Valley. Two of the three 'adaptive shifts' in land-use patterns proposed by Bettinger are not supported by the published data
Archaeology · Artifact (error) · Cartography · Geography · Physical geography · Prehistory · Ridge · Variation (astronomy) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Computer Science · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Method and Theory in American Archaeology
Curation, Statistics, and Settlement Studies
Prehistoric Economy in the Mount Carmel Area of Palestine
Multivariate Statistical Analysis of a Regional Subsistence-Settlement Model for Owens Valley
Aboriginal Human Ecology in Owens Valley
An Empirical Test for Steward's Model of Great Basin Settlement Patterns
Optimal Location in Settlement Space
Regional Subsampling and Statistical Inference in Forested Habitats
A Comment on Bettinger
Archaeology of the Great Basin
| Highly cited | No |
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