Week 3: Theory and practice of archaeology

Excavation and interpretation

• Graham-Campbell and Valor 29-42; Carver and Klapste 34-47
• 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 archaeology and visit the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona