Archaeomagnetism: A preliminary Report on Britain

Dating by archaeomagnetic and thermoluminescent methods

“…Following on from early work at Cambridge (Cook & Belshe 1958), the Oxford Research Laboratory for Archaeology has carried out measurements on some seventy archaeological structures, involving a total of well over a 1000 samples. This has successively been the work of M. R. Harold, G. H. Weaver and H. N. Hawley and the resulting curve obtained for the secular variation is shown in figure 1.…”

Global archaeomagnetic data: The state of the art and future challenges

“…The potential to combine individual archaeomagnetic data from different locations into composite archaeomagnetic curves for dating purposes was recognized in the 1950s (e.g., Cook and Belshé, 1958;Watanabe, 1958) and a variety of reference curves have been obtained for several parts of the world since then (see Korte et al (2019) for a detailed review). Because the geomagnetic field cannot be considered purely dipolar, field variations at one location (or in one region) are not representative of the evolution of the field as a whole.…”

MagIC as a FAIR Repository for America's Directional Archaeomagnetic Legacy Data

“…As early as the 1950s, scientists from Europe and Japan began developing archaeomagnetic theory, methods, and applications (e.g., Aitken, 1961; Burlatskaya & Petrova, 1961; Cook & Belshé, 1958; Thellier & Thellier, 1951; Watanabe, 1959) but they were not embraced by North American scientists until the early 1960s. In 1964, geophysicist Robert DuBois began his life‐long pursuit of sampling and measuring archaeomagnetic materials.…”