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Originally posted by redstang281:
Can you show me were they have dated strata and
found and increase in "age" with depth from the same area as an accurate dating of a historically known item?
Oh for goodness sake - read a book, why don't you? How about ...
The Absolute chronology of the Aegean Early Bronze Age: archaeology, radiocarbon and history (Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 1995)
by S. W. Manning
or if you want to surf, have a detailed look at ...
THE SYNCHRONIZATION OF CIVILIZATIONS IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
IN THE 2nd MILLENNIUM BC at
http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/sciem2000/index.html
Or read an archaeological report - preferably one covering multi-period occupancy in an urban context. Roman or Middle Eastern would do nicely. Failing that, some of the excavations of medieval castles which have underlying iron and bronze age forts.
One problem (which kept me in work as a research historian for a few years) is that archaeology tends to be a bit underfunded and radiocarbon dating is expensive. Finding an absolute historical date of any sort: even a terminus post quem or ante quem has the advantage of saving a bundle in radiocarbon testing fees.
Even then, there are some cool sites in the UK - Winchester and York are obvious examples - where good RC dates can be compared to known historical dates.
What you probably won't find is palaeontological stratigraphy and archaeological stratigraphy in the same report. They are different disciplines and are interested in different sites.
There are however, some sites with wonderful stratigraphic sequences stretching back from medieval to neanderthal occupation:
http://www.acs.appstate.edu/dept/anthro/new_orleans.html
[This message has been edited by Mister Pamboli, 02-19-2002]