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On the Life Span of Pottery, Type Frequencies, and Archaeological Inference

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Nicholas David
Nicholas David*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
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Abstract

A sample of North Cameroon Fulani pottery for which median ages of types are known is used to show that the frequencies of types in the archaeological record are in part a function of their respective life spans. This is of some significance in interassemblage comparisons.

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American Antiquity , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , January 1972 , pp. 141 - 142
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1972

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