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Back to Study Hall: Further Reflections on Large Game Hunting During the Middle Holocene in the Great Basin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Bryan Hockett
Bryan Hockett*
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Bureau of Land Management, Nevada State Office. 1340 Financial Blvd., Reno, NV 89502
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Abstract

Hall's (this issue) comment to my paper published in American Antiquity five years ago (Hockett 2005) makes the following statements: (1) I calculated "depositional rates" for a series of Great Basin faunal assemblages; (2) my analysis did not account for atmospheric radiocarbon fluctuations; and (3) my paper argued "against an increase in hunting artiodactyls from the Middle to Late Holocene." He further argues that recalculation of the data I presented demonstrates that both large-and small-game hunting increased from the Middle to the Late Holocene. Hall is wrong on all accounts. I agree, however, that calibrated dates should now be used instead of the raw radiocarbon dates I used in my original paper. Using calibrated dates, however, does nothing to change the initial patterns I outlined five years ago. Three more recent papers (Hockett 2007, 2009; Hockett and Murphy 2009) on large game hunting in the Great Basin also corroborate my 2005 interpretations.

Resumen

Resumen

Comenta Mark Hall a mi artículo publicado hace cinco años, son erróneas. Analizando los datos de mi original utilizando los métodos sugeridos por él no cambia los resultados. Tres artículos adicionales publicados desde 2005 también corroboran mis interpretaciones originales.

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American Antiquity , Volume 75 , Issue 4 , October 2010 , pp. 962 - 965
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 2010

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