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Are Bayesian statistics useful to archaeological reasoning?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Richard Reece
Richard Reece*
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31–34 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PY, England
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An ANTIQUITY paper used the methods of Bayesian statistics to combine radiocarbon and stratigraphic information into a single considered view. But are they different kinds of information, more fairly kept separate?

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Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 261 , December 1994 , pp. 848 - 850
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1994

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Buck, C.E. Kenworthy, J.B. Litton, C.D. & Smith, A.F.M. 1991. Combining archaeological and radiocarbon information: a Bayesian approach to calibration, Antiquity 65: 808–21.Google Scholar
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