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Time, Trees, And Prehistory : Tree-ring Dating And The Development Of North American Archaeology, 1914-1950

Attribution
Stephen Edward Nash
Publication Details
Book, University of Utah Press, 1999
Availability
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(LOWER LEVEL) CC78.3 .N37 1999 AVAILABLE
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Description
Dendrochronology, the science of assigning precise calendar dates to annual growth rings in trees, provided archaeologists with accurate dates at a time when North American archaeologists had no absolute dating techniques available to guide their analyses. TIME, TREES, AND PREHISTORY examines archaeological practices of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, and demonstrates that tree-ring dating set the stage that enabled revolutionary developments in archaeological method and theory in succeeding decades. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
Author
- Nash, Stephen Edward, 1964-
Subject
Places in this work
- Southwest, New
- United States
Contents
- 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?
ISBN
- 0874805899
LCCN
- 98056281
Open Library ID
- /b/OL390388M