Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 October 2015
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.