The Obsidian Hydration Dating Project at Copan: A Regional Approach and Why It Works-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Obsidian Hydration Dating Project at Copan: A Regional Approach and Why It Works

Published:1993-12 Issue:4 Volume:4 Page:303-324
ISSN:1045-6635
Container-title:Latin American Antiquity
language:en
Short-container-title:Latin Am. antiq.

Author:

Webster David,Freter AnnCorinne,Rue David

Abstract

Settlement research at Copán, Honduras, since 1984 has produced the largest set of obsidian-hydration dates from excavated contexts available for Mesoamerica (Webster and Freter 1990). Geoffrey Braswell (1992) has criticized the methodology underlying our research, specific associations of our published data, and particularly our reconstruction of a demographic and political decline at Copán that extended well beyond A.D. 900. Braswell has incorrectly characterized the Copan Obsidian Hydration Dating Project’s methodology, and makes many factual errors in assessing the Copán data. In this paper the authors correct these errors, discuss basic issues of obsidian-hydration-dating methodology, and offer new data from Copán to evaluate the efficacy of hydration dating as a method and its potential future application for Mesoamerica as a whole.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Archaeology,History,Archaeology

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