Practice question · Put in order
Order these decoration styles by the seriation once external dating fixed their direction (earliest first).
- Elaborate cord-impressed patterns
- Simple incised lines
- Ornate painted polychrome
- Plain undecorated ware
Hints
- The internal sequence comes from the frequency curves.
- The external date tells you which end to start from.
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- Plain undecorated ware
- Simple incised lines
- Elaborate cord-impressed patterns
- Ornate painted polychrome
Why
The seriation alone gives this run of styles; the anchoring date tells us to read it plain-to-ornate rather than the reverse. Sequence from the method, direction from the anchor.
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