Re: Vineland

From: Eric Stevens (eric.stevens_at_sum.co.nz)
Date: 02/19/05 

Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 23:07:06 +1300

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:50:14 -0600, Tom McDonald
<tmcdonald2672@nohormelcharter.net> wrote:

>Eric Stevens wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:45:59 -0700, "Tedd Jacobs"
>> <Jacobs@mail.boisestate.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>"Eric Stevens" wrote...
>>>
>>>>On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 05:23:45 -0500, "Steve Marcus"
>>>><smarcus_spamout_@cox.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> --- snip ---
>>>>
>>>>>stating that artifact X cannot have been produced later than
>>>>>date Y *is* considered to be dating the artifact.
>>>>
>>>>Sez who?
>>>
>>>it's called a typology eric. or were you baiting?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> All this started from Seppo's statement that " The ink hasn't been
>> "dated" at all, ... " which as far as I know is perfectly correct.
>> Merely assigning an upper and lower limit to a date range is not
>> dating.
>
> In archaeology, establishing a _terminus post quem_ is a useful
>step in dating. That is what has been done in the VM case,
>should the Danes not find some compelling countering evidence. :-)
>
> In the (shudder) KRS case, Wolter and others suggest that their
>study of the stone provides a _terminus ante quem_ data point of
>ca. 200 ya. While not an exact date, if true, it certainly isn't
>without consequence to the debate about its authenticity.

But in neither case do they give an absolute date (with, or without,
confidence limits).

Eric Stevens

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