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| An Introduction to Time and Dating | |
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| Preliminary Considerations | |
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| Relative and Absolute Time | |
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| Continuous and Discontinuous Time | |
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| Direct and Indirect Dating | |
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| Scientific Dating | |
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| Time and Its Measurement | |
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| Nominal Scale Measurement | |
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| Ordinal Scale Measurement | |
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| Ordinal Scale Measurement | |
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| Interval Scale Measurement | |
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| Ratio Scale Measurement | |
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| Beyond Measurement Scale: Ideational and Empirical Units | |
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| The Creation of Archaeological Types | |
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| Initial Considerations | |
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| Constructing Chronological Types | |
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| Chronological Types in Americanist Archaeology | |
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| Typological issues Begin to Take Shape | |
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| Typology in Retrospect | |
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| Seriation I: Historical Continuity, Heritable Continuity, and Phyletic Seriation | |
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| What Is Seriation? Seriation in Americanist Archaeology | |
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| The Key Assumptions: Historical and Heritable Continuity | |
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| Continuity and the Study of Organisms | |
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| Tracing Lineages | |
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| Detecting Heritable Continuity | |
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| Historical Continuity, Heritable Continuity, and the Study of Artifacts | |
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| Culture Traits W.M. Flinders Petrie and Artifacts from Egyptian Tombs | |
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| John Evans and Gold Coins from Britain | |
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| A. V. Kidder and Pottery from Pecos Pueblo | |
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| The Gladwin-Colton-Hargrave System | |
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| Projectile Point Evolution | |
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| Seriation II: Frequency Seriation and Occurrence Seriation | |
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| The First Frequency Seriation | |
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| How Do Occurrence and Frequency Seriation Work? The Seriation Model | |
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| Requirements and Conditions of Seriation | |
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| Occurrence Seriation | |
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| Frequency Seriation | |
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| Meeting the Conditions of the Seriation Model | |
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| Temporal Resolution and Rates of Change | |
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| Absolute Seriation | |
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| A Final Note | |
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| Superposition and Stratigraphy: Measuring Time Discontinuously | |
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| Strata, Stratigraphy, and Superposition | |
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| Stratigraphic Excavation | |
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| Stratigraphic Excavation in Historical Context | |
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| Early Stratigraphic Excavation | |
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| On the Eve of the `Revolution'. The Real Revolution | |
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| What Was the Revolution? After the Revolution: Measuring Time with Strata | |
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| Measuring Time at Gatecliff Shelter, Nevada | |
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| The Final Proof Is in the Spade, But | |
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| Cross Dating: The Use of Index Fossils | |
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| Folsom and Clovis Points | |
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| George C. Vaillant and the Mexican Formative | |
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| James A. Ford and the Lower Mississippi Valley | |
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| Measuring Time Discontinuously | |
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| Final Thoughts on Archaeological Time: A Cash of Two Metaphysics | |
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| Measuring Time Continuously | |
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| Measuring Time Discontinuously | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |