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Sampling in Archaeology: A Brief Bibliography

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Baxter, M. J. 2001 Methodological Issues in the Study of Assemblage Diversity. American Antiquity 66(4):715-728.

Benfer, Robert A. 1979 Sample size in multivariate analyses: Some corrections of Davis' review of Sampling in Archaeology. Plains Anthropologist 24(83):71-74.

Dixon, C. and B. Leach. 1978 Sampling methods for geographical research. In Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography. London: Study Group in Quantitative Methods, Institute of British Geographers; Geoabstracts.

Dunnell, Robert C. and William S. Dancey. 1983 The siteless survey: A regional scale data collection strategy. In Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory. Michael B. Schiffer, ed. New York: Academic Press.

Hoffman, Curtiss 1993 Close-interval core sampling: Tests of a method for predicting internal site structure. Journal of Field Archaeology 20461-473.

Howell, Todd L. 1993 Evaluating the utility of auger testing as a predictor of subsurface artifact density. Journal of Field Archaeology 20475-484.

James, Steven R. 1997 Methodological issues concerning screen size recovery rates and their effects on archaeofaunal interpretations. Journal of Archaeological Science 24385-397.

Leonard, Robert D. 1997 The sample-size richness relation: A comment on Plog and Hegmon. American Antiquity 62(4):713-716.

Nance, Jack D. and Bruce F. Ball. 1986. No surprises? The reliability and validity of test pitsampling. American Antiquity 51(3):457-483.

Nicholson, B. A. 1983 A Comparative Evaluation of Four Sampling Techniques and ofthe Reliability of Microdebitage as a Cultural Indicator inRegional Surveys. Plains Anthropologist 28(102):273-281.

O'Neil, Dennis H. 1993 Excavation sample size: A cautionary tale. American Antiquity 58(3):523-529.

Peacock, Evan 2000 Assessing bias in shell assemblages. Journal of Field Archaeology 27183-196.

Plog, Stephen E. and Michelle Hegmon 1997 An anthropological perspective on the sample size-richness relation: A response to Leonard. American Antiquity 62(4):717-178.

Plog, Stephen E. and Michelle Hegmon 1993 The sample size-richness relation: The relevance of research questions, sampling strategies, and behavioral variation. American Antiquity 58(3):489-496.

Redman, Charles L. 1974 Archeological sampling strategies. Addison-Wesley Module in Anthropology 55:1-34.

Redman, Charles L. 1987 Surface collection, sampling, and research design: A retrospective. American Antiquity 53(4):249-265.

Redman, Charles L. and Patty J. Watson 1970 Systematic, intensive surface collection. American Antiquity 35:279-291.

Robertson, Ian G. 1999 Spatial and multivariate analysis, random sampling error, and analytical noise: Empirical Bayesian methods at Teotihuacan, Mexico. American Antiquity 64(1):137-152.

Sheehan, Michael S. 1996 Cultural responses to the altithermal or inadequate sampling reconsidered. Plains Anthropologist 41(158):395-397.

Wobst, H. M.1983 We can't see the forest for the trees: Sampling and shapes of archaeological distributions. In Archaeological Hammers and Theories. James A. Moore and Arthur S. Keene, eds. Pp. 37-85. New York: Academic Press.

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