Tools for Constructing Chronologies : Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries /
Tools for Constructing Chronologies focuses on ways of getting more out of existing chronological data by careful analysis. It surveys a range of cutting edge methods in chronology construction and seeks to enable cross-disciplinary fertilisation of ideas. The specially invited papers cover a range...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Springer London,
2004.
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| Series: | Lecture notes in statistics (Springer-Verlag) ;
177. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: Towards Integrated Thinking in Chronology Building
- Bayesian Chronological Data Interpretation: Where Now?- Pragmatic Bayesians: A Decade of Integrating Radiocarbon Dates into Chronological Models
- Bayesian Inference of Calibration Curves: Application to Archaeomagnetism
- The Synchronization of Civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium BC: Natural Science Dating Attempts
- Applications of Formal Model Choice to Archaeological Chronology Building
- Complicated Relations and Blind Dating: Formal Analysis of Relative Chronological Structures
- Genealogies from Time-Stamped Sequence Data
- Tephrochronology and Its Application to Late Quaternary Environmental Reconstruction, with Special Reference to the North Atlantic Islands
- Constructing Chronologies of Sea-Level Change from Salt-Marsh Sediments
- A Framework for Analysing Fossil Record Data
- Taking Bayes Beyond Radiocarbon: Bayesian Approaches to Some Other Chronometric Methods
- Index.