Dating techniques Flashcards
1
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Written records
A
Records that are written during periods
2
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Typology
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Comparing artifact types in another civilization
3
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Seriation
A
Comparing complexity of objects
4
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Stratigraphy
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The study of different layers in the dirt; the lowest layer is the oldest
5
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Synchronism
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Comparing society about the same time and examine the objects traded between those times
6
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Associations
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Find artifacts together on the same level out of the site; could assume that they are the same age
7
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Dendrochronology
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Study of tree rings
8
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Radio carbon 14
A
Measuring the carbon in a living thing; the more carbon it is the more recent it was dead
9
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Potassium argon
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Measures reduction of potassium argon on an artifact; can be rocks
10
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Thermoluminescence
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The more light the pottery displays, the more recent it is
