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Estimating the number of contemporaneous houses from 14C dates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Knut Helskog  and
Tore Schweder
Knut Helskog
Affiliation:
Tromsø Museum, University of Tromsø, 9000 Tromsø, Norway
Tore Schweder
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics and Computing, University of Oslo, Box 1070 Blindern, N-0317 Oslo 3, Norway
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How, given a collection of absolute dates from individual structures on a settlement site, is one to work out how many might have been occupied at any one time?

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Antiquity , Volume 63 , Issue 238 , March 1989 , pp. 166 - 172
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1989

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