Chronometric Dating in Archaeology

411 Pages·1997·41.29 MB·English

by  Martin J. Aitken

Chronometric Dating
in Archaeology
ADVANCES IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND MUSEUM SCIENCE
Series Editors:
Martin J. Aitken, Oxford University
Edward V. Sayre, Smithsonian Institution
and R. E. Taylor, University of Cal ifomi a, Riverside
Volume 1 PHYTOLlTH SYSTEMATICS: Emerging Issues
Edited by George Rapp, Jr. and Susan C. Mulholland
Volume 2 CHRONOMETRIC DATING IN ARCHAEOLOGY
Edited by R. E. Taylor and Martin J. Aitken
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Chronometric Dating
in Archaeology
Edited by
R. E. TAYLOR
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, California
and
MARTINJ. AITKEN
Oxford University
Oxford, England
Published in cooperation with the
Society for Archaeological Sciences
Springer Science+ Business Media, LLC
Library of Congress Catalogtng-in-PublIcatton Data
Chronometrlc dating In archaeology / edited by R.E. Taylor and Martin
J. Aitken.
p. cm. — (Advances In archaeological and museum science ; v.
2)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4757-9696-4
1. Archaeological dating. I. Taylor, R. E. (Royal Ervln), 1938¬
. II. Aitken, M. J. (Martin Jim) III. Series.
CC78.C46 1997
930. T 028*5—dc21 97-31098
CIP
ISBN 978-1-4757-9696-4 ISBN 978-1-4757-9694-0 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4757-9694-0
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Consulting Editors
Arnold Aspinall Heather Lechtman
University of Bradford Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bradford, England Cambridge, Massachusetts
Christian Lahanier
Rainer Berger
Louvre Research Laboratory
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California Paris, France
Hisao Mabuchi
Jonathon E. Ericson
Tokyo National Research
University of California, Irvine
Institute of Cultural Properties
Irvine, California
Tokyo, Japan
Donald K. Grayson Robert Maddin
University of Washington Harvard University
Seattle, Washington Cambridge, Massachusetts
Garman Harbottle Patrick Martin
Brookhaven National Laboratory Michigan Technological University
Brookhaven, New York Houghton, Michigan
Frederick R. Matson
David Harris
Pennsylvania State University
University of London
University Park, Pennsylvania
London, England
Vagn Mejdahl
w. David Kingery
Rise National Laboratory
University of Arizona Copenhagen, Denmark
Tucson, Arizona
Pieter Meyers
B. Foss Leach Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Wellington, New Zealand Los Angeles, California
Jacqueline S. Olin Julie K. Stein
Smithsonian Institution University of Washington
Washington, D.C. Seattle, Washington
Ernst Pernicka
Max Planck Institute Henrik Tauber
for Nuclear Physics
National Museum of Denmark
Heidelberg, Germany
Copenhagen, Denmark
John R. Prescott
University of Adelaide
Michael S. Tite
Adelaide, Australia
Oxford University
Oxford, England
Frank Preusser
Los Angeles, California
Giorgio Torraca
T. Douglas Price
University of Rome
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Rome, Italy
Madison, Wisconsin
Franc;ois Schweizer
Laboratory of the Museum of Lambertus Van Zelst
Art and History Smithsonian Institution
Geneva, Switzerland Washington, D.C.
This volume is dedicated to
Annette Laming
editor of
La Decouverte du Passe:
Progres Recents et Techniques Nouvelles
en Prehistoire et en Archeologie
(Paris, 1952)
Contributors
Martin]. Aitken • Research Laboratory for Archaeology, Oxford University,
OXI 3QJ, United Kingdom
Paul R. Bierman • Department of Geology, University of Vermont,
Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA
Jeffrey S. Dean • Laboratory of Tree-ring Research, University of Arizona,
Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA
Irving Friedman • Laboratory of Isotope Geology, United States Geological
Survey, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA
Rainer Griin • Quaternary Dating Research Centre, Australian National Uni
versity, Canberra, ACT #0200, Australia
p. E. Hare • Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington,
Washington, DC, 20015, USA
Richard E. Hughes • Geochemical Research Laboratory, Portola Valley, Cali
fornia 94028, USA
Julie E. Kokis • Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington,
Washington, DC, 20015, USA
Amanjit Sandhu • Department of Physics, Guru Nanak Dev University, Am
ritsar, India
Joan S. Schneider • Department of Anthropology, University of California,
Riverside 92521, USA
HenlY P. Schwarcz • School of Geography and Geology, McMaster University,
Hamilton, Ontario L85 4Ml, Canada
Philip Shane • Department of Geology, University of Auckland, Auckland,
New Zealand
Robert S. Sternberg • Department of Geosciences, Franklin and Marshall
College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17604, USA
Stephen Stokes • School of Geography, Oxford University, OXI 3QJ United
Kingdom
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x CONTRIBUTORS
R. E. Taylor • Radiocarbon Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, Insti
tute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, University of California,
Riverside, California 95251, USA
Fred W Trembour • Laboratory of Isotope Geology, United States Geological
Survey, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA
David W Von Endt • Conservation Analytical Laboratory, Smithsonian Insti
tution, Washington, DC, 20015, USA
Robert C. Walter • Institute of Human Origins, Berkeley, California 94710,
USA .
John Westgate • Physical Sciences Division, University of Toronto, Scarbor
ough, Ontario MIC lA4, Canada