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Progress in scientific dating methods / edited by Richard Burleigh.

Contributor(s): Burleigh, Richard | British Museum. Research Laboratory | University of London. Institute of Archaeology | International Symposium on Archaeometry and Archaeological Prospection (19th : 1979 : London, England)Material type: TextTextSeries: Occasional paper (British Museum) ; no. 21.Publication details: London : British Museum, 1980. Description: 90 p. : ill. ; 30 cmISBN: 0861590201 (pbk.)Subject(s): Archaeological dating -- Congresses | Archaeometry -- CongressesDDC classification: 930.1/0285 LOC classification: CC78 | .P76 1980
Contents:
Radioisotope dating beyond 50,000 years BP / R.P. Beukens -- Carbon dating using high-energy mass-spectrometry: a review of recent progress / R.E.M. Hedges -- Ion beam production from archaeological samples for radiocarbon mass-spectrometry / N.R. White, J. Wand, and R.E.M. Hedges -- Radiocarbon calibration: recent progress / J.R. Pilcher -- Uranium-series geochronology: a review of its application to absolute age dating of archaeological deposits / R.S. Harmon -- Dating of speleothem by disequilibria in the U-decay series / G.J. Hennig, U. Bangert, and W. Herr -- Archaeomagnetic intensities / D. Walton.
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Shelf 38 - Main Room 		G2c BURLE 9667 Not for loan BOOKS*00000002589

"This volume forms part of the proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Archaeometry and Archaeological Prospection, jointly organized by the Research Laboratory of the British Museum and the University of London Institute of Archaeology, and held in London in March 1979"--P. 3.

Includes bibliographies.

Radioisotope dating beyond 50,000 years BP / R.P. Beukens -- Carbon dating using high-energy mass-spectrometry: a review of recent progress / R.E.M. Hedges -- Ion beam production from archaeological samples for radiocarbon mass-spectrometry / N.R. White, J. Wand, and R.E.M. Hedges -- Radiocarbon calibration: recent progress / J.R. Pilcher -- Uranium-series geochronology: a review of its application to absolute age dating of archaeological deposits / R.S. Harmon -- Dating of speleothem by disequilibria in the U-decay series / G.J. Hennig, U. Bangert, and W. Herr -- Archaeomagnetic intensities / D. Walton.