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Picking the lock of time : developing chronology in American archaeology / edited by James Truncer.
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English
Published/Created
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2003.
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165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Forrestal Annex - A
CC78 .P53 2003
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Subject(s)
Archaeological dating
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United States
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History
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Indigenous peoples of North America
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Antiquities
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United States
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Antiquities
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Indigenous Studies
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Truncer, James, 1959-
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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.
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ISBN
0813026784 ((cloth ; : acid-free paper))
9780813026787 ((cloth ; : acid-free paper))
LCCN
2003054086
OCLC
52341514
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