11th February 2012, 01:03 PM
Jack Wrote:Typology should be abandoned as a means of dating.
Although typological studies and categorisation have proven useful in ordering developments within the manufacture of objects. It has been shown as woefully inadequate in providing dating frameworks. Its time for a greater use and reliance in scientific dating...
What u mean like post-Med pot specialists actually reading the dated factory stamps on the bottom of the pots (eg. Feb 1827) rather than suggesting on typological grounds that its "18th/19th century"? -depressing how often that happens....have been tempted to take site assemblages along to the Antiques Roadshow where they'll even tell you who painted the flowers on it....and for free... :face-thinks: