Elizabeth Hemings Site

DAACS Seriation Method

DAACS staff aim to produce a seriation-based chronology for each slave-quarter site using the same methods (see Neiman, Galle, and Wheeler 2003 for technical details). Only assemblages with more than five ceramic sherds are included in these ceramic-based seriations. Since none of the features at the Elizabeth Hemings Site contained more than 5 ceramic sherds, DAACS was unable to produce a seriation-based chronology for the site. However, the site-wide Mean Ceramic Date points to the occupation’s temporal placement at the end of the eighteenth century. The TPQ of 1830 represents a single Bennington/Rockingham sherd from context 1928A1. The TPQp90 of 1775 provides a more robust estimate of the site's TPQ based on the 90th percentile of the beginning manufacturing dates for all the artifacts comprising it.

The Elizabeth Hemings Site Mean Ceramic Date

Unit MCD TPQ TPQp90 Total Count
Site 1796.82 1830 1775 743

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