Using Chronometric Hygiene to Revise the Central Plains

Tradition Chronology

Donna C. Roper Kansas State University

71st Plains Anthropological Conference Loveland, Colorado

October 4, 2013

the accumulation of dates over the last 40 years

accuracy and precision

a chronology

ordinal scale, arbitrary taxomomic units of varying length, implied unity within

a phase

a timeline interval scale, individual phenomena or events

distribution and density of dated sites

materials dated

distributions of dates from GaK and several other labs

distribution of standard deviations

Site/contexttotal # dates 1A 1B 2A 2B 2C

14CD480 1 1

14CY1 3 3

14CY102 4 2 2

14CY17-H1 4 3 1

14CY17-H2 1 1

14CY2 1 1

14CY4 3 3

localities as used in this study

the complete chronology

problem wiggle

when is she going to quit playing with those dates and take me for

a walk