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Comment on Estimating Tillage Effects on Artifact Distributions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ronald M. Yorston
Ronald M. Yorston*
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Abstract

The analysis of the results of Odell and Cowan's experiments on tillage-induced artifact movement is flawed. Their use of cumulative averages is defective and does not support the conclusions they have drawn. Their grouping of data for the analysis of the effect of artifact size on displacement is incorrect.

Résumé

Résumé

El análisis de los resultados de los experimentos de Odell y Cowan sobre el movimento de artefactos ocasionado de la labranza es desperfecto. El empleo de término medio cumulativo es defectuoso, y no apoya lo que han concluído. Es incorrecta la agrupación de datos para el análisis del efecto sobre desplazamiento, de la dimension de artefactos.

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American Antiquity , Volume 55 , Issue 3 , July 1990 , pp. 594 - 598
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1990 

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