Definition: American archaeologist Robert Whallon is best known for his substantial publications on computer applications in archaeology, particularly quantitative analysis; and as founder of the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. Educated at the University of Chicago and currently professor at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Whallon has conducted archaeological investigations concentrating on the European Paleolithic and Mesolithic.
Whallon, Robert. 1987 Simple statistics. In Quantitative Research in Archaeology: Progress and Prospects. Mark S. Aldenderfer, ed. Pp. 135-150. Newbury Park, NJ: Sage.
---1973 Spatial analysis of occupation floors I: Application of dimensional analysis of variance. American Antiquity 38:266-278.
---1974 Spatial analysis of occupation floors II: The application of nearest neighbor analysis. American Antiquity 39:16-34.
---1973 Spatial analysis of palaeolithic occupation areas. In The Explanation of Culture Change. Colin Renfrew, ed. London: Duckworth.
---1984 Unconstrained clustering for the analysis of spatial distributions in archaeology. In Intra-site spatial analysis in archaeology. Harold J. Hietala, ed. Pp. 242-277. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Whallon, Robert. 1987 Simple statistics. In Quantitative Research in Archaeology: Progress and Prospects. Mark S. Aldenderfer, ed. Pp. 135-150. Newbury Park, NJ: Sage.
---1973 Spatial analysis of occupation floors I: Application of dimensional analysis of variance. American Antiquity 38:266-278.
---1974 Spatial analysis of occupation floors II: The application of nearest neighbor analysis. American Antiquity 39:16-34.
---1973 Spatial analysis of palaeolithic occupation areas. In The Explanation of Culture Change. Colin Renfrew, ed. London: Duckworth.
---1984 Unconstrained clustering for the analysis of spatial distributions in archaeology. In Intra-site spatial analysis in archaeology. Harold J. Hietala, ed. Pp. 242-277. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
This glossary entry is part of the Dictionary of Archaeology. Sources for the term include the references listed on the front page of the Dictionary, and the websites listed in the sidebar.
