Radiocarbon dating: An Archaeological Perspective, by R.E. Taylor, 1987, Academic Press, Orlando, xii + 212 pp., $39.50 (clothbound)

✍ Scribed by E. Mott Davis

• Book ID: 102225042
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 130 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0883-6353
• DOI: 10.1002/gea.3340030213

✦ Synopsis

After more than thirty years ofradiocarbon dating, naivete and misuse are still widespread features of its application in archaeology. T w many archaeologists confuse radiocarbon ages with true ages and forget that the dates are statements of probability rather than finite figures. Little primers addressing this ignorance have been put out by radiocarbon laboratories, but they have not seen wide circulation and no general work for archaeologists has appeared. Now, R.E.