Time, trees, and prehistory : tree-ring dating and the development of North American archaeology, 1914-1950 /
"Dendrochronology, the science of assigning precise calendar dates to annual growth rings in trees, emerged to provide accurate, reliable dates at a time when North American archaeologists had no absolute dating techniques to frame their analyses. Time, Trees, and Prehistory examines the growth...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Salt Lake City :
University of Utah Press,
©1999.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Archaeological tree-ring dating: origins and principles
- Lord of the rings: A.E. Douglass and the development of archaeological tree dating, 1914-1929
- Tree-ring dating at the University of Arizona, 1929-1945
- Yang and Yin: Harold Gladwin, Emil Haury, and tree-ring dating at the Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation
- Volcanoes, ruins, and cultural ecology: tree-ring dating at the Museum of Northern Arizona
- Santa Fe style: dendrochronology in the Rio Grande Valley
- News leaks, gender politics, spies and historic deforestation: tree-ring dating in the American midwest
- A compass, a raft, and a .22: James Louis Giddings's dendrochronology in Alaska
- Did dendrochronology change North American archaeology?