A comment on Steele's (2010) "radiocarbon dates as data: Quantitative strategies for estimating colonization front speeds and event densities"

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2116-2122

  Buchanan, Briggs ^a,b   Hamilton, Marcus ^c,d   Edinborough, Kevan ^e   O'Brien, Michael J ^b   Collard, Mark ^a,b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colonization of North America; Demography; Diffusion analysis; Extraterrestrial impact hypothesis; Paleoindians; Radiocarbon dates; Summed probability distribution analysis

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION; PROBABILITY; RADIOCARBON DATING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 79960075533     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: 10959238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2011.02.026     Document Type: Article

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