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Putting it on the Calendar: Some Methodological Notes on Hockett's “Middle and Late Holocene Hunting in the Great Basin”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Mark E. Hall
Mark E. Hall*
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Abstract

Hockett's (2005) examination of the faunal deposition rates at three sites in the Great Basin contains two fundamental errors. The rates are calculated using uncalibrated radiocarbon determinations, and ignores the fact that atmospheric radiocarbon has fluctuated through the millennia. Second, despite pronouncements on significant differences, no formal significance tests were done. This comment re-analyzes two of the sites discussed by Hockett using calibrated radiocarbon determinations and formal statistical significance tests.

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Hockett's (2005) examinación de las tarifas de deposición fáunicas en tres sitios en el Gran Lavabo contiene dos errores fundamentales. Las tarifas se calculan usando determinaciones sin calibrar del radiocarbono. No se hizo más lejos ningunas pruebas de significación formales. Este papel reanaliza dos sitios discutidos por Hockett usando determinaciones calibradas del radiocarbono y pruebas estadísticas formales de la significación.

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American Antiquity , Volume 75 , Issue 4 , October 2010 , pp. 954 - 961
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 2010

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