Before civilization
Subtitle: the radiocarbon revolution and prehistoric Europe.
Edition: [1st American ed.]
Publisher: Knopf; [distributed by Random House]
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Europe; Megalithic monuments -- Europe; Radiocarbon dating; Europe -- Antiquities
Notes: Bibliography: p. [279]-292.
Table of contents: title: Introduction -- The problem of dating -- The first radiocarbon revolution -- The tree-ring calibration of radiocarbon -- The collapse of the traditional framework -- Beyond diffusion -- The enigma of the megaliths -- The world’s first stone temples -- The beginning of European metallurgy -- The emergence of civilization in Europe -- Stonehenge and the Early Bronze Age -- Prospect : towards a new prehistory -- Appendix : radiocarbon dating.