Ordination versus clustering of elemental data from PIXE analysis of herder-hunter pottery: A comparison

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 319-327

  Bollong, Charles A ^a   Jacobson, Leon ^b   Peisach, Max ^c   Pineda, Carlos A ^c,e   Sampson, C Garth ^d,f  

^a PIMA COMMUNITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b McGregor Museum   (South Africa)

^c NATIONAL ACCELERATOR CENTRE   (South Africa)

^d IZIKO SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^f SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ceramics; Correspondence analysis; Pixe analysis; Ward's minimum variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040080581     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jasc.1996.0116     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Aitchison, J. (1986). The Statistical Analysis of Compositional Data. London: Chapman & Hall.
2. Baxter, M. J. (1994). Exploratory Multivariate Analysis in Archaeology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
3. Beier, T. & Mommsen, H. (1994). Modified Mahalanobis filters for grouping pottery by chemical composition. Archaeometry 36, 387-306.
4. Bollong, C. A. & Kamilli, D. C. (1995). The ceramic identity of herders and hunter-gatherers from excavated contexts in the Seacow valley. 10th Congress of the Pan African Association for Prehistory and Related Studies, June 18-23, Harare, Zimbabwe.
5. Bollong, C. A., Vogel, J. C., Jacobson, L., van der Westhuizen, W. A. & Sampson, C. G. (1993). Direct dating and identity of fibre temper in pre-contact Bushman (Basarwa) pottery. Journal of Archaeological Science 20, 3-16.
6. Daniell, S. (1804-1806). African Scenes and Animals. London: Private Printing.
7. Greenacre, M. J. (1984). Theory and Applications of Correspondence Analysis. London: Academic Press.
8. Greenacre, M. J. (1986). SIMCA: a program to perform simple correspondence analysis. The American Statistician 40, 230-231.
9. Hart, T. J. G. (1989). Haaskraal and Volstruisfontein: Later Stone Age Events in the Great Karoo. Masters Thesis: University of Cape Town.
10. Morrison, D. F. (1976). Multivariate Statistical Methods. New York: McGraw-Hill.
11. Pineda, C. A., Jacobson, L., Peisach, M. & Sampson, C. G. (1990). PIXE Analysis of Seacow River Valley Pottery. National Accelerator Centre Annual Report. Faure: Foundation for Research Development, C.S.I.R. No. 90-01, pp. 118-119.
12. Sampson, C. G. (1984). A prehistoric pastoralist frontier in the upper Zeekoe valley, South Africa. In (M. Hall, G. Avery, D. M. Avery, M. L. Wilson & A. J. B. Humphreys, Eds) Frontiers: Southern African Archaeology Today. Oxford: BAR International Series 207, pp. 96-110.
13. Sampson, C. G. & Vogel, J. C. (1995). Radiocarbon chronology of Later Stone Age pottery decorations in the upper Seacow River valley. Southern African Field Archaeology 4, 84-94.
14. Sampson, C. G., Hart, T. J. G., Wallsmith, D. L. & Blagg, J. D. (1989). The ceramic sequence in the upper Seacow valley: problems and implications. South African Archaeological Bulletin 44, 3-16.
15. Schiffman, S. S., Reynolds, M. L. & Young, F. W. (1981). Introduction to Multidimensional Scaling: Theory, Methods, and Application. New York: Academic Press.
16. Schofield, J. F. (1948). Primitive Pottery: an Introduction to South African Ceramics, Prehistoric and Protohistoric. Cape Town: South African Archaeological Society.
17. Ward, J. H. (1963). Hierarchical grouping to optimize an objective function. Journal of the American Statistical Association 58, 236-244.
18. Wilkinson, L. (1990). SYSTAT: The System for Statistics. Evanston, IL: SYSTAT Inc.