ANP 203 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: National Historic Preservation Act Of 1966, Pongidae, Dendrochronology

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Chapter 8 vocab (book: register of historic places: established and authorized in 1966 through the national historic. Preservation act, the register amounts to an honor role of structures, places and sites that meaningfully reflect significant episodes, events, people, or practices in american history. This act also established the national register of. Historic places: relative dating: refers to dating methods that place individual artifacts, ecofacts, features, or sites in a chronological sequence but without a determination of actual age. Strata: the singular of strata; a single or individual soil layer. Stratigraphy: analysis of the sequenced layering of rock and soil. The relative ages of archaeological materials can be determined by the position of the soil levels, or strata, in which the materials are found by reference to the law of superposition. Seriation graph: a relative dating technique based on a common pattern of change in material culture.

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