Tools for Constructing Chronologies : Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries (Lecture Notes in Statistics Vol.177) （2003. 280 p.）

Ed. by Caitlin E. Buck and Andrew R. Millard

SPRINGER, BERLIN（2003発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 280 p.
• 商品コード 9781852337636

基本説明

Contents: Towards Integrated Thinking in Chronology Building.- Bayesian Chronological Data Interpretation- Pragmatic Bayesians: A Decade of Integrating Radiocarbon Dates into Chronological Models.- Constructing Chronologies of Sea-Level Change from Salt-Marsh Sediments.- etc.

Full Description

Tools for Constructing Chronologies focuses on ways of getting more out of existing chronological data by careful analysis. It surveys a range of cutting edge methods in chronology construction and seeks to enable cross-disciplinary fertilisation of ideas. The specially invited papers cover a range of timescales, from the perspectives of a number of disciplines. The methods used range from complex statistical treatments, to (non-statistical) considerations of how to systematically represent relative dating information. Each chapter can be read alone, but they are also carefully cross-referenced. The editors' introductory essay provides a cross-disciplinary overview of the state of chronology construction methods, and highlights the links between them. This book will appeal to a wide range of researchers, scientists and graduate students using chronologies in their work; from applied statisticians to archaeologists, geologists and paleontologists, to those working in bioinformatics and chronometry.