Micro-Seriation: A Method for Fine Chronologic Differentiation
- 20 January 1975
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 40 (1), 22-38
- https://doi.org/10.2307/279266
Abstract
The value and need for the micro-seriation of archaeological data are discussed, and a non-typological approach is described. Excavated and surface material from the Cibola region of New Mexico are seriated by two different techniques: factor scores and multidimensional scaling. The results are compared with stratigraphic and dendrochronologic data. It is argued that the methods produce useful results and that time differences of about a decade can be determined.Keywords
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