Martin Aitken
British archaeologist
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Martin Jim Aitken FRS[1] (11 March 1922[2] – 13 June 2017[3]) was a British archaeometrist.[4][5]
Aitken was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, and studied physics at Wadham College, Oxford. He was a fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.[6] He was Professor of Archaeometry at the University of Oxford from 1985 until he retired in 1989.[6][7]
Aitken organised annual meetings which became the Symposium on Archaeometry and Archaeological Prospection".[8] He had an interest in absolute dating: radiocarbon dating from 1957, thermoluminescence dating from the 1960s, and later helped develop optically stimulated luminescence as a dating method dating.[6]
He died in June 2017 at the age of 95.[9]
Bibliography
- D. R. Brothwell; A. M. Pollard, eds. (March 2005). "Introduction". Handbook of Archaeological Sciences. Wiley. p. 782. ISBN 978-0-470-01476-9.