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Archaeology and archaeometry: from casual dating to a meaningful relationship?

Antiquity,  September, 1997  by Killick, David; Young, Suzanne, M.M.

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The issue of integrating archaeology and archaeometry into one discipline is evaluated. In the 1980s, archaeologists and archaeometrists were highly critical of each other, with the former believing that archaeometry had no place in their profession and the latter resenting the limitations of their profession and the archaeologists' ignorance of methods. In 1997, archaeometrists and archaeologists have begun to work with each other but the relationship between the two disciplines has progressed most in the UK.

The 1981 Brookhaven round table Future Directions in Archaeometry saw archaeologists ...

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