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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2015

C.F.W. Higham
C.F.W. Higham*
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Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Otago, New Zealand (Email: charles.higham@ otago.ac.nz)
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The principal point of my debate paper was to stress the importance of anchoring the chronology of the Neolithic to the Iron Age cultural sequence in north-east Thailand by applying Bayesian analysis to large, third-generation sets of radiocarbon determinations. Three of my respondents agree not only with this proposition, but also with the results of the AMS dating of bone, shell and charcoal from the five prehistoric sites in question.

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Antiquity , Volume 89 , Issue 347 , October 2015 , pp. 1233 - 1237
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2015 

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