Seriation, Stratigraphy, and Index Fossils: The Backbone of Archaeological Dating

by Michael J. O'Brien, R Lee Lyman, R. Lee Lyman

Book Overview

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 the relative ages of archaeological phenomena, often with considerable precision. Stratigraphic excavation is perhaps the best known of the various relative-dating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147578192X
• ISBN13: 9781475781922
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 253 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"