27th February 2012, 08:46 PM
Notice stratigraphy hasn't crept into this discussion much, despite scientific dating and typology both being somewhat dependent on it for useful application? Actually they're all inter-dependent, having spent part of the morning hacking a few more samples out of a prospective C14-dating list (damn those budgets), based on the whats-later-than-what-and-between-those-typologically-pot-dated-horizons, seems like the C14 dating's getting gradually squeezed to either end of the temporal window, with pot-typology ruling the centre-ground (although the odd well-stratified goat and the like have been left in the middle as a check), and all tied together by those stratigraphical principles that all seemed so yawn-inducing back in lectures.....