Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1982. — 274 p. — ISBN: 0-226-03630-8. The analysis of tree-ring patterns, or dendrochronology, has now become a very exact science and is becoming an important dating technique. The basis of the method is misleadingly simple: that overlap of successively older ring patterns can generate a master chronology and samples of unknown age can...
Berkeley: University of California Press; London: British Museum, 1990. — 64 p. — (Interpreting the Past; 1). — ISBN: 0-520-07037-2. Radiocarbon is probably the most familiar of the many dating techniques currently used in archaeology. How does it work? What can it date? In answering these basic questions, this book also poses others, for radiocarbon is not quite as...
Swindon, English Heritage, 2008. — 44 p. These guidelines are designed to establish good practice in the use of luminescencedating for providing chronological frameworks. They provide practical advice on using luminescence dating methods in archaeology. The guidelines should not be regarded as a substitute for advice given by specialists on specific projects; and, given how...
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1976. — 272 p. — ISBN: 0-460-04241-6. In archaeology the dating of discoveries is always crucial and sometimes revolutionary. Well-established techniques such as the Carbon 14 test and tree-ring dating, together with newer methods like the hydration rim dating of obsidian, not only throw new light on the sequences of events but could result in the...
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1952. — vii, 124 p. Born in Grand Valley, Colorado, American chemist Willard Libby was educated at the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his Ph.D. in 1933. In 1941, he went to Columbia University to work on the development of the atom bomb. After World War II, Libby was appointed professor of chemistry at the...
New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. — 253 p. — ISBN 0-306-46152-8. It is difficult for today’s students of archaeology to imagine an era when chronometric dating methods – radiocarbon and thermoluminescence, for example – were unavailable. How, they might ask, were archaeologists working in the preradiocarbon era able to keep track of time; that is, how were they able...
Routledge, 2019. — 302 p. This book presents guidance, theory, methodologies, and case studies for analyzing tree rings to accurately date and interpret historic buildings and landscapes. Written by two long-time practitioners in the field of dendrochronology, the research is grounded in the fieldwork data of approximately 200 structures and landscapes. By scientifically...
Orlando: Academic Press, 1987. — xii, 212 p. — ISBN: 0-12-684860-2. Radiocarbon Dating: An Archaeological Perspective provides a review of some of the major advances and accomplishments of the 14C method from an archaeological perspective. The text also provides an introduction to some of the problems and issues involved in the use of 14C data in archaeological studies. The...
New York: Springer Science+Business Media, 1997. — xix, 395 p. — (Advances in Archaeological and Museum Science; v. 2). — ISBN: 978-1-4757-9696-4. Since World War II, there has been tremendous success in the development of new methods for dating artifacts; the so-called `radiocarbon revolution' was only the first such discovery. The increasing accuracy of the various new...
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