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 …

Archaeological dating has undergone rapid development as part of a more general trend
towards increasingly sophisticated scientific methodology, a trend that is being felt …

Archaeologists and archaeology students have long since needed an authoritative account
of the techniques now available to them, designed to be understood by non-scientists. This …

Since World War II, there has been tremendous success in the development of new methods
for dating artifacts; the so-calledradiocarbon revolution'was only the first such discovery. The …

This is the first book to appear which correlates within a single volume the relevant data for
both archeological and geological dating of human fossil remains. The author was trained …

This article represents a systematic effort to answer the question, What are archaeology's
most important scientific challenges? Starting with a crowd-sourced query directed broadly …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents some of the complexities involved in the use of
independent dates in archaeology. The general model and its associated concepts specify …

Archaeologists have utilized stratigraphy in order to correlate sediment layers and
archaeological assemblages for well over a century (Harris 1989; Lyman and O'Brien 1999; …

Stratigraphic interpretation rests on two principles: the principle of superposition and the
principle that deposition units can be identified by cultural content. The sequence of …

Originally published in 1956, this concise book brought together wisdom from V. Gordon
Childe based upon 10 years of his lectures on the principles of archaeological classification …