CLA 2110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Absolute Dating, Bronze Age, Issf 10 Meter Air Rifle
13 Mar 2016
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Solar system; some countries sill use lunar system. Bc (before christ), ad (anno domini/ year of our lord) Have to make sure that the context is correct to use relaive daing. Sample we are using relates to the site. Relaive daing: straigraphy: law of superposiion, the layer that has been deposited on top of another layer is usually later. Looking at the inal use of an arifact, contained context: typology: mostly with potsherds, but also for example stone tools; sill very useful for daing in pre-historical sites. Principles of typology: artefacts of given ime and place have a disincive style: like goes with like", artefacts slowly change/evolve over ime (darwin: evoluionary theory) Oscar montelius (19th century): established relaive chronology for bronze age europe on the basis of typological method. Assign a relaive date and compare to something else that has already me organized in a context.
