Progress in scientific dating methods
By: edited by Richard Burleigh.
Contributors: Burleigh, Richard.; British Museum. Research Laboratory.; University of London. Institute of Archaeology.; International Symposium on Archaeometry and Archaeological Prospection (19th : 1979 : London, England)
Series: Occasional paper,; no. 21; Occasional paper (British Museum) ;; no. 21.
Publisher: British Museum
Published: 1980
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 90
Subjects: Archaeological dating -- Congresses.; Archaeometry -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
"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.
Table of contents: title: Radioisotope dating beyond 50,000 years BP / R.P. Beukens; title: Carbon dating using high-energy mass-spectrometry: a review of recent progress / R.E.M. Hedges; title: Ion beam production from archaeological samples for radiocarbon mass-spectrometry / N.R. White, J. Wand, and R.E.M. Hedges; title: Radiocarbon calibration: recent progress / J.R. Pilcher; title: Uranium-series geochronology: a review of its application to absolute age dating of archaeological deposits / R.S. Harmon; title: Dating of speleothem by disequilibria in the U-decay series / G.J. Hennig, U. Bangert, and W. Herr; title: Archaeomagnetic intensities / D. Walton.