ANT312H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Geoarchaeology, Relative Dating, Absolute Dating
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Dating methods relative dating put into time sequence by time period but no idea about difference within sites: relative because differentiation between sites is not accounted for. Absolute dating e. g. seriation frequency, radiocarbon14: zero point in 1950s (arbitrary 0, e. g. dendrochronology tree-ring dating. Ordinal: relative dating methods: don"t know exact time between each period interval: chronometric dates ratio: only when we can id a zero point specific to the entity of interest, e. g. a person or animal"s birth. Direct vs indirect dating target event event that we want to date. Direct date based on attributes of the event, or artifact/ecofact itself indirect dates dates for an event that are associated with the target event. Stratigraphy interpretation of strata sequentially layered deposits resulting from cultural and natural processes. Sediments vs soils sediment: inorganic or organic particles deposited by natural or human processes soils: weathering profiles of pre-existing sediments with in situ physical and chemical alteration.
