I. Dating by Seriation-- II. Techniques for Automatic Seriation-- III. Evaluating Results-- IV. Comparison of Results-- V. Evaluation of Techniques-- VI. Concluding Remarks-- Appendix A. Tables of Raw Data-- Appendix B. Complete Output for Data Subset Ia-- Appendix C. User's Guide to Phoenix-II-- Appendix D-- Program Listing for Phoenix-II-- Appendix E. Programming Notes on Phoenix-II-- Bibliography