Seriation is a "classic" method for ordering artifact assemblages in time when evidence from stratigraphy or chronometric methods, such as radiocarbon dating, is either lacking or insufficient. This video reviews the 19th and early 20th-century origins of seriation and its classic versions - incidence seriation and frequency seriation (with its "battleship curves"). It identifies some of the problems that can affect the usefulness and quality of seriations and briefly touches on some of the newer seriation methods that may, in some instances, mediate some of those problems, and ends with an introduction to a numismatic seriation method, called die-linking, applicable only to hammer-struck coinage.
My book, The Archaeologist's Laboratory:
link.springer.com/book/10.100...
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