Picking the lock of time : developing chronology in American archaeology / edited by James Truncer.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2003.
Description
165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction / James Truncer
    • The first new archaeology and the development of chronological method / Robert C. Dunnell
    • Origins of Americanist stratigraphic excavation methods / David L. Browman
    • Wissler's gyroscope : contexts for the chronological revolution / James E. Snead
    • Nels Nelson and the measure of time / Michael J. O'Brien
    • Leslie Spier and the Middle Atlantic revolution that never happened / James Truncer
    • George Langford at the Fisher Site, 1924-1929 : pioneer stratigraphic studies in the Midwest / Andrew L. Christenson
    • Not so talkative tree rings : why did archaeologists wait for an astronomer to establish tree-ring dating? / Stephen E. Nash.
    ISBN
    • 0813026784 ((cloth ; : acid-free paper))
    • 9780813026787 ((cloth ; : acid-free paper))
    LCCN
    2003054086
    OCLC
    52341514
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