Frequency Analyses of Historical and Archaeological Datasets Reveal the Same Pattern of Declining Sociocultural Activity in 9th to 10th Century CE Ireland

This paper discusses how the production rate of historical and archaeological data might contain unique information about past societies. The case study is the frequency of entries in the Annals of Ulster, a primary early medieval source from Ireland, which was compared to the frequency of archaeolo...

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Main Authors: Rowan McLaughlin, Emma Hannah, Lisa Coyle-McClung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2018-06-01
Series:Cliodynamics
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Online Access:https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6v28h7bp