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Contending with Contemporaneity: A Reply to Kintigh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Robert E. Dewar
Robert E. Dewar*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-2176
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Abstract

While Kintigh's (1994) proposed modifications of the methods I described in 1991 for estimating the mean number of simultaneous occupations and mean use span of occupations have certain strengths and weaknesses, they do offer a viable alternative approach. However, I show here that the original and revised methods derive from a different conception of settlement-pattern processes.

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Resumen

Kintigh (1994) propuso modificaciones de los métodos que yo describí en 1991 para estimar el número promedio de ocupaciones simultáneas y el promedio de tiempo de uso de ocupaciones. Mientras que sus propuestas tienen ciertos puntos fuertes tanto como débiles, ésas ofrecen un procedimiento alternativo práctico. No obstante, aquí yo demuestro que los métodos originales y aquéllos revisados se derivan de una concepción diferente de los procesos de patrón de asentamiento

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American Antiquity , Volume 59 , Issue 1 , January 1994 , pp. 149 - 152
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1994

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