Sardinian and Aegean Chronology: Towards the Resolution of Relative and Absolute Dating in the Mediterranean : Proceedings of the International Colloquium 'Sardinian Stratigraphy and Mediterranean Chronology', Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, March 17-19, 1995Miriam S. Balmuth, Robert H. Tykot Balanced between the Aegean and West Mediterranean worlds, Sardinia offers a perfect laboratory for the investigation of interaction between societies from the Palaeolithic to Roman period. This work has, however, been hampered in the past by incompatible chronologies, so the 46 papers in this volume (originated at an international congress held at Tufts University in 1995) form an important stepping stone for future research. Twelve papers in Italian take a stylistic approach, using architecture, sculpture and (for the Chalcolithic). The English-language papers discuss radiocarbon dating, dendrochronology, obsidian and other scientific approaches to dating. As the title of the book suggests, Aegean chronologies benefit as much as the West Mediterranean from the results presented here. |
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Some Cautionary Points on the Use of Radiocarbon Dates David H Trump | 11 |
Dating Sardinian Archaeological Obsidian Christopher Stevenson J Grace Ellis | 17 |
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