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Field Archaeology from Around the World

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For the field researcher, a primary task is assigning a date and a sequence (order of occurrence) to the features and structures they record. Occasionally an archaeological site has already been recorded in history, for example, the celebrated urban excavation at Five Points, New York City, exposed a plan of buildings and streets that had appeared on a map in 1855. Even sites mentioned in documentary references seldom offer a date as precise as this, and dated events which might seem to refer to an excavated site have to be used with great caution.

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  1. Department of Archaeology, University of York, York, UK

    Martin Carver

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  1. University of York, York, United Kingdom

    Martin Carver

  2. Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom

    Bisserka Gaydarska

  3. Department of Humanities, ICREA/Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Sandra Montón-Subías

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Carver, M. (2015). Sequence and Date. In: Carver, M., Gaydarska, B., Montón-Subías, S. (eds) Field Archaeology from Around the World. SpringerBriefs in Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09819-7_10

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