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Reply to Skousen and Aiuvalasit: On the Primacy of Archaeological Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 December 2020

A.J. White Open the ORCID record for A.J. White [Opens in a new window] ,
Samuel E. Munoz ,
Sissel Schroeder  and
Lora R. Stevens
A.J. White*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 232 Kroeber Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Samuel E. Munoz
Affiliation:
Department of Marine and Environmental Sciences, Northeastern University, Marine Science Center, 430 Nahant Rd., Nahant, MA 01908, USA
Sissel Schroeder
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 1180 Observatory Dr., Madison, WI 53706, USA
Lora R. Stevens
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, California State University, Long Beach, 1250 Bellflower Blvd., Long Beach, CA 90840, USA
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(ajwhitesemail@gmail.com, corresponding author)
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Abstract

Skousen and Aiuvalasit critique our article on the post-Mississippian occupation of the Horseshoe Lake watershed (White et al. 2020) along two lines: (1) that our findings are not supported due to a lack of archaeological evidence, and (2) that we do not consider alternative hypotheses in explaining the lake's fecal stanol record. We first respond to the matter of fecal stanol deposition in Horseshoe Lake and then address the larger issue, the primacy of archaeological data in interpreting the past.

Skousen y Aiuvalasit critican nuestro artículo de la ocupación post-misisipiano de la cuenca Horseshoe Lake por dos líneas: (1) que nuestros interpretaciones no son soportados por datos arqueológicos, y (2) que no consideramos hipótesis alternativas en nuestro explicación del récord de estanoles fecales del lago. Primeramente, respondemos al asunto de la sedimentación de estanoles fecales en Horseshoe Lake antes de discutimos el asunto mas importante, la primacía de datos arqueológicos en la interpretación del pasado.

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Cahokiafecal stanolsprotohistoryIllinois ConfederationpaleodemographypaleoclimateresilienceCahokiaestanoles fecalesprotohistoriaConfederación de Illinoispaleodemografíapaleoclimaresiliencia
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American Antiquity , Volume 86 , Issue 1 , January 2021 , pp. 203 - 205
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for American Archaeology

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