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A Bayesian approach to dating agricultural terraces: a case from the Philippines

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Stephen Acabado
Stephen Acabado*
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*Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822, USA (Email: [email protected])
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Abstract

Field terraces are notoriously difficult to date – but historically of high significance. Here the author uses a Bayesian model applied to radiocarbon dates to date the tiered rice fields of the northern Philippines. They turn out to have been built in the sixteenth century probably by peoples retreating inland and upland from the Spanish.

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PhilippinesIfugaosixteenth centurySpanishriceterraced fields
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Antiquity , Volume 83 , Issue 321 , September 2009 , pp. 801 - 814
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2009

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