Because the archaeology of West Mexico has received little
attention from researchers, large segments of the region's
prehistoric ceramic sequences have long remained incomplete. This
book goes far toward filling that gap by analyzing a collection of
potsherds excavated in the 1960s and housed since then, though
heretofore unanalyzed, at UCLA. The authors employ the rarely used
statistical technique known as correspondence analysis to sequence
the Long-Glassow collection of artifacts.
The book explains how correspondence analysis works and how it
can be applied in archaeology. In addition to describing the
archaeological sites in north central Jalisco where the collection
comes from, the authors provide an ethnohistorical overview
including information on the earliest Spanish explorers to reach
the sites. They sequence more than seventy ceramic types and derive
a master sequence from more than ten thousand potsherds. In
addition to Mesoamerican archaeologists, the audience will also
include other archaeologists concerned with ceramic analysis or the
application of statistics to archaeology.
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