Archeology for Interpreters > 5. How Do Archeologists Figure Out How Old Things Are?
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to Archaeology, Second Edition. Mayfield Publishing Company,
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James
1996 In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology
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Jane
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Bill
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References
Sections of this chapter were taken from:
Ashmore, Wendy
and Robert J. Sharer
1996 Discovering Our Past: A Brief Introduction
to Archaeology, Second Edition. Mayfield Publishing Company, Mountain
View, CA.
Deetz,
James
1996 In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology
of Early American Life, Revised Edition. Doubleday Press, New
York.
McIntosh,
Jane
1999 The Practical Archaeologist: How We
Know What We Know About the Past, Second Edition. Checkmark Books,
New York.
McMillon,
Bill
1991 The Archaeology Handbook: A Field
Manual and Resource Guide. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. New York.
Noël
Hume, Ivor
1970 A Guide to Artifacts of Colonial America.
Alfred A. Knopf, New York.
Orser,
Charles E., Jr. and Brian Fagan
1995 Historical Archaeology. Harper
Collins College Publishers, New York.