Gaye:

I will be publishing my work on pattern recognition in the 1880 - 1920 
period in the North American West in our book to be entitled ELDORADO! THE 
ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE NORTHERN GOLD RUSHES, edited by Catherine Holder Spude, 
Robin O. Mills, Karl Gurcke and Roderick Sprague and published by the 
University of Nebraska Press in the fall of 2011. In the meantime you can 
get some information on the method from my article in Historical 
Archaeology, Vol. 39, No. 1. and from my report on the Mascot Saloon in 
Skagway, Alaska. Contact Karl Gurcke at [log in to unmask] for a copy of 
the latter report. The Mascot Saloon report contains an appendix which 
outlines the method and presents all comparative data.

You MIGHT find the 1880 -1920 period in North America of more comparability 
than the British Colonial period (then, again, you might not). I chose 1880 
as my cut-off date because that was when the railroad arrived in so many 
places in the North American West, making access to manufactured products 
widely available, especially glass. My glass frequencies may be much higher 
than yours in the 1860's.

However, I strongly urge you to take a look at how I developed my 
methodology and my artifact categories. Even if you do not use the data, you 
might find either/or the methodology and categories of use.

I'll send you a draft of the chapter from the ELDORADO! book offline.

Cathy

Catherine Holder Spude, PhD
7 Avenida Vista Grande #145
Santa Fe, NM 87508
505-466-1476 home
505-913-1326 cell

"Life is not tried, it is merely survived if you are standing outside the 
fire," Jenny Yates and Garth Brooks.

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From: "Gaye Nayton" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2010 6:28 PM
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: pattern recognition

> Has anyone working in the former "wild west" states got any comparison
> tables of their data against South's or others that have used pattern
> recognition? The reason I ask is because Australia's northwest was 
> colonised
> from 1860 so it falls into the same date range as the 'wild west' period. 
> My
> material does not compare to patterns found on the earlier eastern 
> seaboard
> sites.
>
>
>
> I am in the final throes of writing a book about the northwest but during
> the writing of a chapter discovered this gap and now want to check out the
> similarities/differences if information is readily available. But I no
> longer have much time for sourcing books or reports from overseas.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Gaye
>