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Estimating settlement time.

Andrew R Solow

Abstract


This note describes point and interval estimation of a settlement time from a collection of radiocarbon dates. An application concerning the settlement time of New Zealand is presented.

Keywords


Hominidae;Homo;Primates;relative age;case studies;Theria;Eutheria;middens;human activity;models;Mammalia;Australasia;New Zealand;archaeology;Holocene;upper Holocene;Chordata;Tetrapoda;Vertebrata;Cenozoic;Quaternary;methods;geochronology;shells

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