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An Alternative Seriation of the Mabaruma Phase, Northwestern British Guiana*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Donald W. Lathrap
Donald W. Lathrap*
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
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Abstract

The effect which differing assumptions about ceramic analysis can have on the chronological ordering of ceramic materials is demonstrated with reference to the internal chronology of the Mabaruma phase in northwestern British Guiana. As a by-product of this demonstration, it is suggested that Evans and Meggers may have underestimated the time depth of Tropical Forest culture in this area by a factor of 100%.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , January 1964 , pp. 353 - 359
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1964

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Footnotes

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This paper offers documentation concerning one of the points raised by a paper, “Rubber Yardsticks, Space-Time, and Ceramic Typology,” read at the 60th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 16, 1961, at Philadelphia. It is my intention to publish an expanded version of that paper at a later date.

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