Week 3: Theory and practice of archaeology
Monday, September 6: Labor Day (no classes)
Excavation
and
interpretation
- Graham-Campbell and
Valor 29-42
- Greene and Moore 89-147
- visit the site of the Harris
Matrix
Dating
the past:
methods
of dating
Green and Moore 148-189
Graham-Campbell and
Valor 42-43
see a presentation
of the
principles
of radiocarbon dating (with a description of its application in age calculations), and pictures of Willard Libby, Andrew Elicott Douglass, and of an accelarator mass spectrometry lab
read an introduction to the use of dendrochronology
for Medieval Studies and visit the
Laboratory
of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona
