Correspondence analysis and west Mexico archaeology : ceramics from the Long-Glassow collection /

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Imprint:Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2013]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12644774
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Other authors / contributors:Nance, Charles Roger, 1938-
ISBN:9780826353948
0826353940
9780826353931
0826353932
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:"Because the archaeology of West Mexico has received little attention from researchers, large segments of the region's prehistoric ceramic sequences have long remained incomplete. This book goes far toward filling that gap by analyzing a collection of potsherds excavated in the 1960s and housed since then, though heretofore unanalyzed, at UCLA. The authors employ the rarely used statistical technique known as correspondence analysis to sequence the Long-Glassow collection of artifacts. The book explains how correspondence analysis works and how it can be applied in archaeology. In addition to describing the archaeological sites in north central Jalisco where the collection comes from, the authors provide an ethnohistorical overview including information on the earliest Spanish explorers to reach the sites. They sequence more than seventy ceramic types and derive a master sequence from more than ten thousand potsherds. In addition to Mesoamerican archaeologists, the audience will also include other archaeologists concerned with ceramic analysis or the application of statistics to archaeology"--
Other form:Print version: Correspondence analysis and west Mexico archaeology 9780826353931
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