Question

Wind Mountain is an archaeological study area located in southwestern New Mexico. Potsherds are broken pieces of prehistoric Native American clay vessels. One type of painted ceramic vessel is called Mimbres classic black-on-white. At three different sites the number of such sherds was counted in local dwelling excavations. site I 61 35 13 51 21 31 57 site II 31 58 52 16 site III 43 26 49 21 30 55 Shall we reject or not reject the claim that there is no difference in population mean Mimbres classic black-on-white sherd counts for the three sites? Test given a=0.05 State the null and alternate hypothesis.

Answer 1