Tools for Constructing Chronologies

Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries

Caitlin E. Buck, Andrew R Millard - Collection Lecture Notes in Statistics

260 pages, parution le 26/01/2004

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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.

Written for:
Doctoral students, practitioners

L'auteur - Caitlin E. Buck

Editor

L'auteur - Andrew R Millard

Editor

Sommaire

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.

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Éditeur(s)	Springer
Auteur(s)	Caitlin E. Buck, Andrew R Millard
Collection	Lecture Notes in Statistics
Parution	26/01/2004
Nb. de pages	260
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	475g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781852337636
ISBN13	978-1-85233-763-6