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Time, Trees, and Prehistory : Tree-ring title: Dating and the Development of North American Archaeology, 1914-1950 author: Nash, Stephen Edward. publisher: University of Utah Press isbn10 | asin: print isbn13: 9780874805895 ebook isbn13: 9780585133362 language: English Dendrochronology--United States--History- -20th century, Dendrochronology-- Southwest, New--History--20th century, Archaeology--United States--History--20th subject century, Archaeology--Southwest, New-- History--20th century, Southwest, New-- Antiquities, Indians of publication date: 1999 lcc: CC78.3.N37 1999eb ddc: 930.1/028/5 Dendrochronology--United States--History- -20th century, Dendrochronology-- Southwest, New--History--20th century, subject: Archaeology--United States--History--20th century, Archaeology--Southwest, New-- History--20th century, Southwest, New-- Antiquities, Indians of Page iii Time, Trees, and Prehistory Tree-Ring Dating and the Development of North American Archaeology 1914-1950 Stephen Edward Nash THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESS Salt Lake City Page iv © 1999 by The University of Utah Press All rights reserved Typography by WolfPack Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nash, Stephen Edward, 1964 Time, trees, and prehistory : tree-ring dating and the development of North American archaeology, 1914-1950 / Stephen Edward Nash. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-87480-589-9 (alk. paper) 1. DendrochronologyUnited StatesHistory20th century. 2. DendrochronologySouthwest, NewHistory20th century. 3. ArchaeologyUnited StatesHistory20th century. 4. ArchaeologySouthwest, NewHistory20th century. 5. Southwest, NewAntiquities. 6. Indians of North America Southwest, NewAntiquities. I. Title. CC78.3.N37 1999 930.1'028'5dc21 98-56281 Page v For Carmen Page vii Contents List of Figures viii List of Tables ix 1. Archaeological Tree-Ring Dating: Origins and 1 Principles 2. Lord of the Rings: A. E. Douglass and the Development 19 of Archaeological Tree-Ring Dating, 1914-1929 3. Tree-Ring Dating at the University of Arizona, 1929- 69 1945 4. Yang and Yin: Harold Gladwin, Emil Haury, and Tree- 93 Ring Dating at the Gila Pueblo Archaeological Foundation 5. Volcanoes, Ruins, and Cultural Ecology: Tree-Ring 143 Dating at the Museum of Northern Arizona 6. Santa Fe Style: Dendrochronology in the Rio Grande 185 Valley 7. News Leaks, Gender Politics, Spies, and Historic 213 Deforestation: Tree-Ring Dating in the American Midwest 8. A Compass, a Raft, and a .22: James Louis Giddings's 245 Dendrochronology in Alaska 9. Did Dendrochronology Change North American 259 Archaeology? References 265 Acknowledgments 281 Index 285 Page viii Figures 1. Andrew Ellicott Douglass x 2. Clark Wissler 3 3. Crossdating 11 4. Missing ring and locally absent ring 12 5. Double ring 13 6. Skeleton plot 15 7. Earl Halstead Morris 20 8. Tubular borer 26 9. Neil Merton Judd 31 10. Oliver Ricketson and Jean Jeançon, the First Beam 41 Expedition, 1923 11. Map of sites visited by the Beam Expeditions 42 12. Lyndon Lane Hargrave 49 13. Frank H. H. Roberts's perspective on the "bridging of 53 the gap" 14. Emil Walter Haury 58 15. Reed Whipple and specimen HH-39 61 16. Walter T. Laras 66 17. Number of sites sampled by the University of Arizona, 70 1920-1945 18. Map of sites sampled by the University of Arizona, 80 1920-1945 19. Harold Sterling Gladwin 94 20. Map of sites visited by Gila Pueblo, 1940 95 21. Number of sites sampled by the Gila Pueblo 114 Archaeological Foundation 22. Harold Sellers Colton 144 23. John C. McGregor 144 24. Map of sites sampled by the Museum of Northern 148 Arizona 25. Number of sites sampled by the Museum of Northern 149 Arizona 26. Sunset Crater ash 150 27. W. Sidney Stallings 188 Page ix 28. Map of sites sampled by the Laboratory of 189 Anthropology 29. Number of sites sampled by the Laboratory of 191 Anthropology, 1931-1941 30. Florence Hawley 214 31 James Louis Giddings 246 32. Giddings's Map of Alaska tree-ring sites 248 Tables 1. Symbols used to qualify tree-ring dates 17 2. Timeline: Archaeological tree-ring researchthrough 21 1929 3. Timeline: University of Arizona's archaeological tree- 71 ring research 4. Timeline: Gila Pueblo's archaeological tree-ring 94 research 5. Timeline: Museum of Northern Arizona's 145 archaeological tree-ring research 6. Timeline: Laboratory of Anthropology's archaeological 187 tree-ring research 7. Timeline: Archaeological tree-ring research in the 216 American Midwest 8. Timeline: Archaeological tree-ring research in Alaska 247
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