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Seriation, Stratigraphy, and Index Fossils : The Backbone of Archaeological Dating by Michael J. O'Brien and R. Lee Lyman is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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It is difficult for today's students of archaeology to imagine an era when chronometric dating methods were unavailable. However, even a casual perusal of the large body of literature that arose during the first half of the twentieth century reveals a battery of clever methods used to determine the relative ages of archaeological phenomena, often with considerable precision. <br> Stratigraphic excavation is perhaps the best known of the various relative-dating methods used by prehistorians. Alth
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- Author
- Michael J. O'Brien and R. Lee Lyman
- Publisher
- Plenum Pub Corp
- Published
- 2002
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780306471681
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Anthropology, Soil Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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