Pottery and p-values: ‘Seafaring merchants of Ur?’ re-examined

• Autores: Michael Roaf, Jane Galbraith
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 68, Nº 261, 1994, págs. 770-783
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A 1977 ANTIQUITY paper included a study of Neutron Activation Analyses of Ubaid pottery from Mesopotamia and the Arabian Gulf (Oates et al. 1977). A re-examination finds that the interpretation of the statistical analysis was mistaken and shows that the data do not prove the existence of ‘seafaring merchants of Ur’ in the Ubaid period.