Archaeological dating

The simplest model for dating pottery require a minimum of three measurements 103)  

The natural TL. The stored TL is assumed to have accumulated linearly with time starting from the day the pottery was first fired. 

The artificial TL. Th is measurement gives the TL suscepti bil ity of the pottery sherd, and is obtained after it is heated, and then exposed to an artificial source. 

The annual dose rate. A determination of the annual dose rate experienced by the sherd in its burial circumstances. 

Using a relative dating method, one can calculate the age of a pottery sherd from 

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Aitken, M. J. (1999), Archaeological dating using physical phenomena, Reports... 

Murray-Wallace, C. V. (1993), A review of the application of the amino acid racemi-sation reaction to archaeological dating, The Artefact 16, 19-26. 

O Brien, M. J. and R. L. Lyman (1999), Seriation, Stratigraphy, and Index Fossils The Backbone of Archaeological Dating, Kluwer Academic/Plenum, New York. 

Synchrotron applications in archaeology date back to 1986 (Harbottle et al. 1986), and have been subsequently documented on a dedicated website at Daresbury [http //www.srs.ac.uk/srs/]. The majority of the early applications use SR as a source for X-ray fluorescence microanalysis on a variety of materials, including glass (Schofield et al. 1995, Janssens et al. 1996), ink and paper (Mommsen et al. 1996), dental calculus (Capasso et al. 1995), and bone (Janssens et al. 1998b). The repertoire has been expanded to include X-ray... 

Pollard, A. M. (in press b). Measuring the passage of time achievements and challenges in archaeological dating. In Oxford Handbook of Archaeology, eds. Cunliffe B., Gosden C., and Joyce R. 

M. J. Aitken, Archaeological Dating using Physical Phenomena , Rep. Prog. Phys. 62, 1333 (1999). 

Cairns, T., Archaeological Dating by Thermoluminescence, Anal, Chem,... 

This approach may be applicable in solving questions of archaeological dating and relative stratigraphy at sites where traditional pedo-logical methods are inadequate. 

TL) monitoring, personnel monitoring, geological dating, archaeological dating... 

Mass of protons and neutrons together constitute the atomic mass, also called the atomic weight. Atoms of elements with same number of protons but differing number neutrons are referred to as isotopes. The isotopes have many practical applications they are used in archaeological dating, biochemical processes, determining the human diet from mummified tissues or bones and so on. 

The first lump (sample n. 2) was selected from structures of imknown age but stratigraphically older than the 12 century building, while the second sample (sample n. 1) was selected from structures archaeologically dated to the 12 oentmy. The charcoal (sample n 3) has been ascribed to the last construction phase of the building dated to the 13 century AD based on the typology of the walls and on the sizes of stoneS. ... 

This is a well established archaeological dating method used in this area of Italy. 

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