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It's about time : a history of archaeological dating in North America / edited by Stephen E. Nash.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Salt Lake City, Utah : University of Utah Press, �2000.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 296 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585278156
  • 9780585278155
  • 1607812819
  • 9781607812814
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: It's about time.DDC classification:
  • 930.1/028/5 21
LOC classification:
  • CC78 .I87 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The surprisingly deficient history of archaeochronology / Stephen E. Nash, Jeffrey S. Dean -- Stratigraphy and archaeological dating / Julie K. Stein -- The foundations, practice, and limitations of ceramic dating in the American Southwest / Eric Blinman -- Seven decades of archaeological tree-ring dating / Stephen E. Nash -- The introduction of radiocarbon dating / R.E. Taylor -- Thirty years of archaeomagnetic dating / Jeffrey L. Eighmy -- Obsidian hydration dating, past and present / Charlotte Beck, George T. Jones -- Luminescence dating and why it deserves wider application / James K. Feathers -- Dendrochronology and historical records : concordance and conflict in Navajo archaeology / Ronald H. Towner -- Narrating archaeology : a historiography and notes toward a sociology of archaeological knowledge / Jennifer L. Croissant -- Just a matter of time? : North American archaeological dating in the twenty-first century / Stephen E. Nash.
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Review: "In this book, archaeologists with expertise in stratigraphy, ceramic dating, dendrochronology, radiocarbon dating, archaeomagnetic dating, obsidian hydration, and luminescence dating present historical and nontechnical reviews of the growth, development, and application of their techniques. These reviews, as well as one by a sociologist of science, provide archaeologists who do not specialize in such methods with a better understanding of how each technique became integrated within archaeological research. Each expert then evaluates the effect of the specific dating technique and its resulting data on the interpretation of North American prehistory. The analyses, which include case studies, provide guidelines for the proper interpretation of chronologic and chronometric data." "It's About Time will be of use to professional archaeologists, as well as being accessible for anyone with an interest in the history and techniques of modern archaeology."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-280) and index.

The surprisingly deficient history of archaeochronology / Stephen E. Nash, Jeffrey S. Dean -- Stratigraphy and archaeological dating / Julie K. Stein -- The foundations, practice, and limitations of ceramic dating in the American Southwest / Eric Blinman -- Seven decades of archaeological tree-ring dating / Stephen E. Nash -- The introduction of radiocarbon dating / R.E. Taylor -- Thirty years of archaeomagnetic dating / Jeffrey L. Eighmy -- Obsidian hydration dating, past and present / Charlotte Beck, George T. Jones -- Luminescence dating and why it deserves wider application / James K. Feathers -- Dendrochronology and historical records : concordance and conflict in Navajo archaeology / Ronald H. Towner -- Narrating archaeology : a historiography and notes toward a sociology of archaeological knowledge / Jennifer L. Croissant -- Just a matter of time? : North American archaeological dating in the twenty-first century / Stephen E. Nash.

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"In this book, archaeologists with expertise in stratigraphy, ceramic dating, dendrochronology, radiocarbon dating, archaeomagnetic dating, obsidian hydration, and luminescence dating present historical and nontechnical reviews of the growth, development, and application of their techniques. These reviews, as well as one by a sociologist of science, provide archaeologists who do not specialize in such methods with a better understanding of how each technique became integrated within archaeological research. Each expert then evaluates the effect of the specific dating technique and its resulting data on the interpretation of North American prehistory. The analyses, which include case studies, provide guidelines for the proper interpretation of chronologic and chronometric data." "It's About Time will be of use to professional archaeologists, as well as being accessible for anyone with an interest in the history and techniques of modern archaeology."--Jacket.

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