Measuring time with artifacts :a history of methods in American archaeology
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Lincoln
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University of Nebraska Press
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2006
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x, 346 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
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Includes bibliographical references )p. ]299[-342( and index
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R. Lee Lyman and Michael J. O'Brien
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Ontology -- The concept of evolution in early twentieth-century American archaeology -- The epistemology of measurement units -- Cultural traits as units of analysis in early twentieth-century anthropology -- Chronometers and units in early archaeology and paleontology -- A.L. Kroeber and the measurement of time's arrow and time's cycle -- Time, space, and marker types in James Ford's 6391 chronology for the lower Mississippi Valley -- The epistemology of chronometers -- The direct historical approach -- American stratigraphic excavation -- Graphic depictions of culture change -- Artifact classification and artifact-based chronometry