A Simple Mathematical Procedure for Estimating the Adequacy of Site Survey Strategies

Sundstrom, Linea

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“…Past experiments have shown that small sites are underestimated using STP data (Nance, 1979), and that the distribution and density of cultural materials within an archaeological site, regardless of size, can have a dramatic effect on the resultant STP dataset (Nance and Ball, 1986). While mathematical formulas are available to quantify the level of accuracy found within an STP survey (Sundstrom, 1993), they do not alleviate the partial and somewhat biased results obtained by this technique. With these limitations in mind, STP surveys are still a critical technique for areas, such as the southeastern United States, in which vegetation and subsequent soil deposition obscures the visibility of underlying archaeological signatures.…”

Section: Pedestrian Subsurface Sampling Strategy Methods and Resultsmentioning

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Life among the tides : recent archaeology on the Georgia Bight : proceedings of the Sixth Caldwell Conference, St. Catherines Island, Georgia, May 20-22, 2011.

Thomas¹,

Thompson²,

Alexander³

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Anthropol. Pap. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.

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Section: Pedestrian Subsurface Sampling Strategy Methods and Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Life among the tides : recent archaeology on the Georgia Bight : proceedings of the Sixth Caldwell Conference, St. Catherines Island, Georgia, May 20-22, 2011.

Thomas¹,

Thompson²,

Alexander³

et al. 2013

Anthropol. Pap. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist.

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“…These are really systematic transect samples, and PPS samples of sites, whose main virtue is even and somewhat consistent coverage (Cowgill 1990:254; Kintigh 1990:238). “Full coverage” does not mean anything close to 100% coverage unless transect intervals are extremely small and visibility and preservation are excellent (Given et al 1999:22; Sundstrom 1993).…”

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Sampled to Death? The Rise and Fall of Probability Sampling in Archaeology

Banning

2020

Am. Antiq.

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After a heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, probability sampling became much less visible in archaeological literature as it came under assault from the post-processual critique and the widespread adoption of “full-coverage survey.” After 1990, published discussion of probability sampling rarely strayed from sample-size issues in analyses of artifacts along with plant and animal remains, and most textbooks and archaeological training limited sampling to regional survey and did little to equip new generations of archaeologists with this critical aspect of research design. A review of the last 20 years of archaeological literature indicates a need for deeper and broader archaeological training in sampling; more precise usage of terms such as “sample”; use of randomization as a control in experimental design; and more attention to cluster sampling, stratified sampling, and nonspatial sampling in both training and research.

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“…Dos de los campos metodológicos más desarrollados a partir de esta mirada se relacionaron precisamente con el papel del muestreo probabilístico durante la prospección (p.ej., Burger et al 2004;Gallardo y Cornejo 1986;Muller 1974;Nance 1979;Plog 1976;Schiffer et al 1978;Sundstrom 1993) y la evaluación de sitios por medio de recolecciones de superficie y sondeos subsuperficiales, ya sea con barrenos o pozos (p.ej., Chartkoff 1978;Cornejo et al 1991;Cook y Burks 2011;Hoffman 1993;Howell 1993;Kintigh 1986;Nance y Ball 1986;Shott 1985). En este último campo es donde precisamente pretendemos hacer un aporte aquí, centrándonos en evaluar conjuntamente dos aspectos esenciales al momento de seleccionar una determinada técnica de sondeo: el tamaño de la muestra y el esquema de muestreo probabilístico utilizado.…”

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Evaluación De Los Métodos De Muestreo Probabilísticos en La Caracterización De Sitios Arqueológicos Por Medio De Sondeos Subsuperficiales

Cornejo

2019

Chungará (Arica)

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Se presentan los resultados de una evaluación de los métodos de muestreo probabilísticos aplicados al sondeo subsuperficial (p.ej., pozos de sondeo, barrenos, etc.) como herramientas para evaluar la distribución de densidad de restos arqueológicos subsuperficiales. Por medio de la simulación de tres tipos de sitios con distribuciones de densidad de materiales arqueológicos diferentes y de la aplicación sobre ellos de distintos esquemas y fracciones de muestreo, se observa el grado de error en que se representa la distribución de densidad de materiales lograda con distintas alternativas de muestreo probabilístico. Se concluye, por un lado, que un esquema de muestreo escasamente utilizado en arqueología de campo, el muestreo por transectos intervalares, produce menos errores. Por otro lado, más allá del resultado esperable sobre la relación entre el tamaño de la muestra y la precisión con que se representa un universo, ha sido posible estimar cual rango de fracción de muestreo produce errores aceptables.Palabras claves: evaluación subsuperficial, esquemas de muestreo, fracción de la muestra.This paper presents the results of an evaluation of the probabilistic sampling methods applied to subsurface sounding (e.g. test pit, auger holes) as tools to measure the density distribution of subsurface archaeological remains. By means of the simulation of three types of sites with different density distributions of subsurface archaeological materials and the application of different sampling schemes and sampling fractions, the degree of error in representing the density distribution of subsurface materials achieved with different sampling alternatives is observed. It is concluded, on the one hand, that a sampling scheme scarcely used in field archeology, sampling by interval transects, produces fewer errors. On the other hand, beyond the expected relation between the size of the sample and the precision with which a universe is represented, it has been possible to estimate which range of sampling fraction produces acceptable errors.

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A Simple Mathematical Procedure for Estimating the Adequacy of Site Survey Strategies

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Life among the tides : recent archaeology on the Georgia Bight : proceedings of the Sixth Caldwell Conference, St. Catherines Island, Georgia, May 20-22, 2011.

Life among the tides : recent archaeology on the Georgia Bight : proceedings of the Sixth Caldwell Conference, St. Catherines Island, Georgia, May 20-22, 2011.

Sampled to Death? The Rise and Fall of Probability Sampling in Archaeology

Evaluación De Los Métodos De Muestreo Probabilísticos en La Caracterización De Sitios Arqueológicos Por Medio De Sondeos Subsuperficiales

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