History Alive pages 16,17 and Cambridge pages 57, 58
ARCHAEOLOGY AND CHRONOLOGY
DATING METHODS IN ARCHAEOLOGY
1) Complete the table below using the information in the textbook. You will need to infer some of the advantages and limitations. Think…
what’s good about this method? What can’t it do?
2) Explain the difference between absolute dating techniques and relative dating techniques in one paragraph, using an example of each.
METHOD PROCESS ABSOLUTE OR RELATIVE ANY ADVANTAGES? ANY LIMITATIONS?
relative Stratigraphy allows us to A major limitation in the
Stratigraphy Stratigraphy is a branch of relatively date each layer analysis of physical
Geology and the Earth Sciences of soil based on the quantities measured from
that deals with the arrangement artifacts found in each a stratigraphic core is
and succession of strata, or stratum. This helps us incomplete knowledge of
layers, as well as the origin, understand the the depth to age
composition and distribution of chronological sequence of relationship for the core.
these geological strata. events Records derived from
diverse locations are
often compared or
combined to construct
records that represent a
global signal.
Fluoride, a mineral, is naturally pre relative helps prevent decay i dont know
Fluorine in many foods and available as a d
supplement. Fluoride is the ionic fo
the element fluorine, and it inhibits
reverses the initiation and progress
of dental caries (tooth decay) and
stimulates new bone formation
Dendrochronology is the absolute Dendrochronology is an
Dendrochronology science that deals with the invaluable tool to help can only date the rings of
dating and study of the annual scientists determine the trees
growth increments, or tree age of ancient settlements
and artifacts
rings, in woody trees and
shrubs.
Radiocarbon dating, or absolute easy to date i dont know
Radiocarbon Dating carbon-14 dating, is a scientific
method that can accurately
determine the age of organic
materials as old as approximately
60,000 years. First developed in
the late 1940s at the University of
Chicago by Willard Libby, the
technique is based on the decay
of the carbon-14 isotope.
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Thermoluminescence
and Optically
stimulated
luminescence
