22nd February 2012, 01:12 PM
P Prentice Wrote:i dunno - you've been banging on about being a scientist and how the archaeology god is in the detail for long enough i just thought your proposition was a bit sloppy an ill thought out (for a scientist)
Grin - thats more like it.
Not 'ill-thought out'......................just trying to tease out a discussion.
P Prentice Wrote:name me a chronology that is fit for purpose without the aid of typology (whatever that means)
The recent re-dating of the graves from Duggleby Howe, see:
Gibson, A. and Bayliss, A. (2009) ?Recent Research at Duggleby Howe, North Yorkshire.? The Archaeological Journal 166, 50-59
Where by choosing what to date carefully and understanding the errors involved in radiocarbon dating they could phase the burials and even showed curation of objects as one grave had an object (a mace or something I think) placed in it that was much older than the burial.