Measuring Time with Artifacts: A History of Methods in American Archaeology

by R. Lee Lyman and Michael J. O'Brien

Combining historical research with a lucid explication of archaeological methodology and reasoning, Measuring Time with Artifacts examines the origins and changing use of fundamental chronometric techniques and procedures and analyzes the different ways American archaeologists have studied changes in artifacts, sites, and peoples over time.

In highlighting the underpinning ontology and epistemology of artifact-based chronometers--cultural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803280521
• ISBN13: 9780803280526
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"