Seriation, stratigraphy, and index fossils : the backbone of archaeological dating /
It is difficult for today's students of archaeology to imagine an era when chronometric dating methods were unavailable. However, even a casual perusal of the large body of literature that arose during the first half of the twentieth century reveals a battery of clever methods used to determine...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
[1999?]
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| Online Access: | Access E-Book |
Table of Contents:
- 1. An Introduction to Time and Dating
- 2. The Creation of Archaeological Types
- 3. Seriation I: Historical Continuity, Heritable Continuity, and Phyletic Seriation
- 4. Seriation II: Frequency Seriation and Occurrence Seriation
- 5. Superposition and Stratigraphy: Measuring Time Discontinuously
- 6. Cross Dating: The Use of Index Fossils
- 7. Final Thoughts on Archaeological Time: A Clash of Two Metaphysics.