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

Publisher： Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN： 1745-1744|68|261|770-783

ISSN： 0003-598x

Source： Antiquity, Vol.68, Iss.261, 1994-12, pp. : 770-783

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Abstract

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.

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