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Title: There's only one good thing about this book...
Review: ...and that's the title. I can only hope that people looking for this book will, after doing a title search, come across Brian Fagan and Christopher DeCorse's In the Beginning: an Introduction to Archaeology. By doing so, they might learn what archaeology is all about and how it works. They might also learn about the many methods of dating artifacts and objects, a clearly misunderstood area of this debate. Stratigraphy, dendrochronology, obsidian hydration, carbon-14, potassium-argon, thermoluminescence, fission track, uranium series, electronic spin resonance, and archaeomagnetic dating, just to name a few of the absolute dating methods. Brown clearly has an agenda he is furthering by using data in very manipulative ways. It saddens me that he does this, and that many people are drawn in by this.
