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Modeling Regional Radiocarbon Trends: A Case Study from the East Texas Woodland Period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Robert Z Selden Jr
Robert Z Selden Jr*
Affiliation:
Ceramics Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA. Email: zac_selden@tamu.edu
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The East Texas Radiocarbon Database contributes to an analysis of tempo and place for Woodland era (∼500 BC–AD 800) archaeological sites within the region. The temporal and spatial distributions of calibrated 14C ages (n = 127) with a standard deviation (ΔT) of 61 from archaeological sites with Woodland components (n = 51) are useful in exploring the development and geographical continuity of the peoples in cast Texas, and lead to a refinement of our current chronological understanding of the period. While analysis of summed probability distributions (SPDs) produces less than significant findings due to sample size, they are used here to illustrate the method of date combination prior to the production of site- and period-specific SPDs. Through the incorporation of this method, the number of 14C dates is reduced to 85 with a ΔT of 54. The resultant data set is then subjected to statistical analyses that conclude with the separation of the east Texas Woodland period into the Early Woodland (∼500 BC–AD 0), Middle Woodland (∼AD 0–400), and Late Woodland (∼AD 400–800) periods.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , 2012 , pp. 239 - 265
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Copyright © 2012 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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