Abstract
The Tehuacain Valley project received pointed criticism from Hardy (1999, 1996), who focused her doctoral dissertation on reevaluating the extensive data and the related chronological analyses formulated by MacNeish, Flannery, and others. Hardy (1996, p. 700) emphasized the prominence of the Tehuacain Valley project's chronological sequences within the field of Mesoamerican archaeology, and this provided a primary impetus for her critical review of the data and related interpretations. This comment evaluates Hardy's criticisms, and concludes that she applied an inappropriate statistical test in her evaluation of Flannery's analysis of rodent remains and related inferences of environmental changes over time. In contrast, Flannery (1967) applied statistical tests appropriate to the types of data used in his analysis, if those data in fact comprised a random sample. The most intriguing issues in
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