A variety of techniques have been developed to provide scientific chronologies of archaeological sites and material culture. These chronologies under-pin the narratives that are generated for prehistoric and other periods. The application of Bayesian statistical analysis to scientific chronologies has been hailed as ‘a revolution in understanding’, and has brought renewed emphasis onto how we generate scientific chronological data, how these data are applied into wider narratives, and the epistemological importance of these data. This volume will provide a timely review of the methods, applications and challenges of applying different scientific dating techniques to archaeological sites and material culture. It will then provide an introduction to Bayesian modeling, and highlight a series of considerations in the application of scientific dating techniques.
Figure List Table List Contributors Abstract Conventions used Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Radiocarbon Seren Griffiths and Thomas Higham Chapter 3 Dendrochronology Martin Bridge and Seren Griffiths Chapter 4 Luminescence – Optically Simulated Luminescence and Thermoluminescence Abi Stone and Seren Griffiths Chapter 5 Archaeomagnetic dating Sam Harris and Seren Griffiths Chapter 6 Palaeoenvironmental chronologies Seren Griffiths and Benjamin Gearey Chapter 7 On Site — designing and implementing chronometric sampling strategies Seren Griffiths Chapter 8 Analysing Datasets – Bayesian inference and archaeological chronometric data Seren Griffiths and Richard Staff Chapter 9 Scientific dating and narrative Seren Griffiths
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