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A slice through time : dendrochronology and precision dating

Title
A slice through time : dendrochronology and precision dating / M.G.L. Baillie.
Author
Baillie, M. G. L.
Publication
London : Batsford, 1995.

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Description
176 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
Subject
  • Dendrochronology
  • Archaeological dating
  • Dendrochronologie
  • Archéologie > Datation
  • dendrochronology
  • dating (measuring process)
  • 38.17 geochronology
  • 15.30 archaeology: general
  • Dendrochronologie
  • Altersbestimmung
  • Datering
  • Vulkanen
  • Archaeology > Methodology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. The tree-ring dating method -- 2. Oak dendrochronology comes of age -- 3. Art-historical dendrochronology and the limitations of oak dendrochronology -- 4. Archaeological dating and some ultimate chronological truths -- 5. Volcanoes and tree-rings -- 6. Volcanoes and chronology: the AD 540 story -- 7. Volcanoes and chronology: the Bronze Age eruption of Santorini (Thera) -- 8. Socio-economic information from tree-rings -- 9. Environmental reconstruction from tree-rings -- 10. Problems with dating the Shang and the New Kingdom.
ISBN
  • 0713476540
  • 9780713476545
  • 9781136226830
  • 1136226834
LCCN
98108261
OCLC
  • ocm33867920
  • 33867920
  • SCSB-9227429
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library