ANT200H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Chronometry, Geochronology, Absolute Dating
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To understand and explain the variability of human experience and adaptation. Space control: surveying and excavation which establish provenience. Science of locating events in time which relies upon chronometry. Direct uses the analysis of the artifact, ecofact or feature itself to arrive at its age. Two means of direct dating: age of one item in relation to other items, expressed as something is younger or older than something else. Absolute/chronometric dating: ages in calendar terms usually expressed bc and ad, bce & ce or bp (before present 1950) Not reliable absolute dating methods, know details about bolded terms. The interpretation of stratification (laying down of strata/deposits. In an undisturbed depositional sequence each layer is younger than the one beneath it. Exposure of sediments at a vertical cut into the earth. Discreet layers and/or features representing materials deposited at a particular time. Technology, artifacts, use of area, who used the area. Indirect dating is more reliable for dating the depositional sequence.
