Table of Contents

1: Generalities; 2: Climatic Clocks and Frameworks; 3: Radiocarbon – I; 4: Radiocarbon – II; 5: Potassium–argon; uranium series; fission tracks; 6: Luminescence dating; 7: Electron spin resonance; 8: Amino acid racemization; obsidian hydration; other chemical methods; 9: Magnetic Dating and Magnetostratigraphy

About the Author

Martin Aitken retired in 1989 as Professor of Archaeometry and Deputy Director of the Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, Oxford University.

Reviews

'Martin Aitken xxx; provides just the kind of lucid, well-balanced view of these new dating methods which archaeologists have long been waiting for.' Nature