The Archeoligist Flashcards
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Stratigraphy?
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A method of dating artefacts.the lower down invthe soil they are found the older they are
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Post holes?
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Dark patches left by wooden poles in the soil they might show the outline of a house even though the house no longer exsists
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Carbon or radiocarbon dating?
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A method of dating artifacts,all living things contain carbon 14.
When the living thing dies it begins to lose carbon 14
The older an object is the less carbon 14 it has.
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Dendrochronology?
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A method of dating wooden objects.each year a tree adds a new ring to its trunk.these rings add up to tell us the age of the tree. archeoligists study ring patterns on wooden objects to date them
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What is Research archeology?
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