Archaeological Dating Quiz Review
8 Rules of Relative Dating Date with Caution Relationship between artifacts and their context Date level by latest object in it Contexts can be dated by artifacts in them Artifacts can be dated by context they are in 1 st appearance of artifact is more important than its continued appearance. Residual artifacts are normal Sequence Dating Cross Datinfg
Gridding List reasons why Gridding is important when digging a site: Can you grid a site on paper? Steps? Border, measure grid boxes, connect lines, name grids boxes
Grids
Keyhole Trenches Or Test Pit
Slit Trench
Urban Sites Problems:
Rural Sites Problems:
Relative Dating 2 Types: – A. – B.
Absolute Dating Two Types: – A. – B.
C14 What is is? How is it used? Limitations? C14 Decay Graph
C14 Decay Graph
Dendrochronology Tree Ring Dating
Dendrochronology Two important pieces of information obtained from Tree Rings? – A. – B.