He is currently professor of anthropology and director of the Radiocarbon Laboratory, Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, at the University of California, Riverside. While a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, he served as a research assistant in the isotope laboratory established by the late Willard F. Libby who developed the radiocarbon dating concept and pioneered the associated laboratory techniques. The text is amply illustrated and written in a clear, easily readable style. There is a broad discussion of techniques, as well as of the basic principles on which these techniques are based. Explanations from elementary principles are provided for readers who wish to understand the technical details.
Extensive references provide easy access to the original literature.
For many individuals these discussions are worth more than the cost of the entire book. The author and publisher are to be commended for a first edition remarkably free of errors. I can cite only two of any significance. All contents copyright Geoscience Research Institute. All rights reserved.