Ebook: Scientific Methods In Medieval Archaeology

The primary aim of this volume is to illustrate how the latest scientific methods may be applied to Medieval Archaeology in Europe and the Middle East. It contains papers originally presented at an international conference on the application of science to Medieval Archaeology held at the University of California, Los Angeles, under the auspices of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and the Isotope Laboratory of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics.

Among the methods described, some of which are still very much in the experimental stage, are rapid X-ray fluorescence analysis, thermoluminescence dating, dendrochronology, tephrochronology, radiocarbon dating, and archeomagnetic dating.