Science-Based Dating in Archaeology

ISBN-13: 9781138147294 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 294 str.

M. J. Aitken

Opis

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 book fills the gap and it offers a two-tier approach to the subject. The main text is a coherent introduction to the whole field of science-based dating, written in plain langauge for non-scientists. Additional end-notes, however, offer a a more technical understanding, and cater for those who have a scientific and mathematical background.

Spis treści

1: Generalities; 2: Climatic Clocks and Frameworks; 3: Radiocarbon – I; 4: Radiocarbon – II; 5: Potassium–argon; uranium series; fission tracks; 6: Luminescence dating; 7: Electron spin resonance; 8: Amino acid racemization; obsidian hydration; other chemical methods; 9: Magnetic Dating and Magnetostratigraphy

O autorze

Martin Aitken retired in 1989 as Professor of Archaeometry and Deputy Director of the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University.