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A Response to Hart and Lovis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2016

Donna C Roper
Donna C Roper*
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Department of Sociology/Anthropology/Social Work, Kansas State University, 204 Waters Hall, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA. Email: droper@ksu.edu
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Abstract

Hart and Lovis clearly hold different views than do I about how to view incongruities in age determinations on food residue as compared to those on context dates on other short-lived materials. I explain how I came to the conclusions I drew in my earlier study (Roper 2013a) and suggest that I am evaluating my results, and those of others, by looking for patterns in the incongruities, rather than individually explaining away incongruent dates. I also briefly review some work with a collaborator being undertaken to correct the obvious problem with age-offset dates on residue.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 56 , Issue 1 , 2014 , pp. 355 - 359
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Copyright © 2014 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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