The Demise of the Alaka Initial Ceramic Phase Has been Greatly Exaggerated
Response to D. Williams
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7604012 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Roosevelt (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author), Anna C Roosevelt |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 353-364 |
| Publication date | 1997-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| 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 | 10.2307/282517 |
| OpenAlex | W2327877060 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 4 |
Denis Williams writes to comment on my article on Archaic shell mound pottery in eastern South America (Roosevelt 1995). He states that he will “correct” my article by putting on record “new facts.” Rather than correct my article, Williams"s comment misstates both the content of my article and that of earlier literature on Guyanese archaeology, and it merely repeats the data included in my article. In addition, Williams's comment presents some interesting but internally contradictory elaborations of his earlier interpretations of Guyanese archaeology but still without supplying the basic data on which his interpretations are based. In essence, contrary to my article, Williams states that there is no such thing as a Guyanese Archaic shell mound pottery occupation, known in earlier literature as the Alaka Incipient Ceramic phase (Evans and Meggers 1960:25-64). Williams presents this conclusion as “fact,” but it contradicts the existing data from stratigraphy, pottery distribution, and radiocarbon dates in the shell mounds, and he furnishes no other specific data that support it. In my comment on his comment, I will document these various aspects of his comment and define the type of data that he needs to present to allow empirical evaluation of his assertions
Archaeology · Demise · Library science · Pottery · Radiocarbon dating · Subject (documents) · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Classics · Computer Science · History · Law · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
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