ANTH 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: List Of Index Fossils, Relative Dating, Optically Stimulated Luminescence
14 Aug 2020
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Seriation (also called sequence dating) is based on the idea that artifacts change over time. Refers to a variety of techniques created to order artifacts in a series . Adjacent items in the series are more similar to each other than to members further away in the series. Technique in which artifacts are ordered according to similarity of style. Artifact styles and characteristics change over time, coming into fashion, then fading in popularity. Ex: car styles, car tail fins, radiator caps, etc. In the late 1920s and early 1930s radiators moved inside the vehicle. External radiator caps were no longer needed. Stylistic form remained in the form of non-functional hood ornaments. The artifact variation may be tied to either temporal change or areal differences. Archaeologically it is possible to determine within a region, what variation is temporal and what is areal. Involves determining the sequence of sites or deposits by studying the relative frequencies of certain artifact types.
