Gaye,
Would you contact me off-list? I would like to discuss your dating method(s).
Thanks,
Jeff Boyer
Jeffrey L. Boyer, RPA
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Office of Archaeological Studies
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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY on behalf of Gaye Nayton
Sent: Sat 2/24/2007 6:45 PM
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Subject: Re: Revisiting South's functional artifact categories
Larry
With your site are you organising dating via artifacts? I am looking at
streching the testing of a dating method I presented at SHA 2007 beyond
Western Australian sites.
Do you have your database organised with start and end dates for the
artifacts? Or have it organised with information so that I can identify and
add the dating to the artifacts, and importantly work out minimum numbers
for types?
I am looking for the artifact information from one excavation square that
you are sure is not in a disturbed contest to test the dating method
against.
Regards Gaye
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From: "McKee, Larry" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 2:39 AM
Subject: Revisiting South's functional artifact categories
Our staff is working on the analysis of artifacts from a data recovery
project on a 1910s to 1940s lumber mill town, Ravensford, on the edge of
the Great Smoky Mountains in southwestern North Carolina. The
collection includes over 170,000 artifacts from 22 distinct house lots,
commercial lots, and several dumps.
We are trying to adapt South's functional category scheme to serve as an
intermediate step in the artifact analysis. We are tweaking it to
accommodate 20th century items as well as to try (as others have done)
to minimize the inherent problems in forcing certain multifunctional or
ambiguous items into fixed categories.
We are looking for references to discussions (in publications, gray
literature, dissertations, or meeting presentations) of similar attempts
at broader functional categorization of historic period artifact
collections, based on South or other approaches.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions from list members.
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TRC Inc.
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Nashville TN 37210-3814
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