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

• Main Authors: O’Brien, Michael J. (Author), Lee Lyman, R. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Paleontology.; Sedimentology.; Anthropology.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.

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...

Table of Contents:

• An Introduction to Time and Dating
• The Creation of Archaeological Types
• Seriation I
• Seriation II
• Superposition and Stratigraphy
• Cross Dating
• Final Thoughts on Archaeological Time.