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 of timescales, from the perspectives of a number of disciplines. The methods used range from complex statistical treatments, to (non-statistical) considerations of how to systematically represent relative dating information. Each chapter can be read alone, but they are also carefully cross-referenced. The editors' introductory essay provides a cross-disciplinary overview of the state of chronology construction methods, and highlights the links between them.
This book will appeal to a wide range of researchers, scientists and graduate students using chronologies in their work; from applied statisticians to archaeologists, geologists and paleontologists, to those working in bioinformatics and chronometry.
Author(s): C.E. Buck, A.R. Millard (ed.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Statistics
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 274
Title
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Preface: Towards Integrated Thinking in Chronology Building
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CONTENTS
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List of Contributors
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1. Bayesian Chronological Data Interpretation: Where Now?
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2. Pragmatic Bayesians: a Decade of Integrating Radiocarbon Dates into Chronological Models
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3. Bayesian Inference of Calibration Curves: Application to Archaeomagnetism
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4. The Synchronization of Civilizations in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Second Millennium BC: Natural Science Dating Attempts
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5. Applications of Formal Model Choice to Archaeological Chronology Building
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6. Complicated Relations and Blind Dating: Formal Analysis of Relative Chronological Structures
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7. Genealogies from Time-Stamped Sequence Data
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8. Tephrochronology and its Application to Late Quaternary Environmental Reconstruction, with Special Reference to the North Atlantic Islands
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9. Constructing Chronologies of Sea-Level Change from Salt-Marsh Sediments
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10. A Framework for Analysing Fossil Record Data......Page 228
11. Taking Bayes Beyond Radiocarbon: Bayesian Approaches to Some Other Chronometric Method
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Index
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