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Notes on Soil Analysis and Archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Ralph S. Solecki
Ralph S. Solecki*
Affiliation:
River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
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With the addition of Carbon 14 dating to the archaeologist's repertory as a technique for determining the actual age of archaeological specimens, this phase of archaeology in America has been put on a more exact basis.

However, preoccupied as we seem to be with “dates,” a method of chemical analysis useful in archaeology and evolved twenty years ago by Arrhenius (1930) and applied by Schnell (1932) in northern Europe has remained unnoticed in this country, although Clark (1936, pp. 19-22) mentions it.

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American Antiquity , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , January 1951 , pp. 254 - 256
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1951

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