A Rapid Method of Archeological Seriation.
Robert L. Carneiro · Anthropological Science · 1997
To establish the chronological order of a series of surface sites which are not stratigraphically superimposed, archeologists make use of a technique known as seriation. The first systematic method for carrying out seriation was devised by Robinson and Brainerd in 1951. Since then, a number of other methods for doing so have been developed. Almost all of them, however, are laborious and time consum-ing. The present paper describes a new way of doing seriation which, while giving the same results as more familiar and established methods, does so in a much shorter time.