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Archaeology and archaeometry: from casual dating to a meaningful relationship?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

David Killick  and
Suzanne M.M. Young
David Killick
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology and Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721, USA
Suzanne M.M. Young
Affiliation:
Archaeometry Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138, USA
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Most archaeology and anthropology departments are grouped as Humanities or as Social Sciences in university organizations. Where does that place the archaeometrists who approach the materials with the methods of physical and biological sciences? And where does it place the archaeologists themselves — especially when archaeometric studies have a large place in contract archaeology?

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 273 , September 1997 , pp. 518 - 524
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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