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stratigraphic excavation: a standalone construct

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digging a deposit in successive measured levels so that changing artifact frequencies through the levels can be read as change over time.

In archaeology, stratigraphic excavation refers to digging a deposit in successive measured levels so that changing artifact frequencies through the levels can be read as change over time. This meaning comes from Nelson (1916) in American Anthropologist.[1]

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  1. Nelson, N. C. (1916). Chronology of the Tano ruins, New Mexico. American Anthropologist, 18(2), 159-180. https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1916.18.2.02a00010

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