ANT101H5 Lecture Notes - Radiocarbon Dating, Relative Dating, Fluorine
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Involves ordering artifacts into sequences relative to each other strata=deeper in to earth, goback through time. Law of superposition=1 layer lies on top of the other, so that the layer at the bottom is the oldest (ie:deposited first. ) The study of stratification: artifacts are deposited into layers strata. Law of superposition: one layer lies on top of the other, so that the layer at the bottom is the oldest (i. e. deposited first) Older bones have more f and u. site specific; environmentally variable different amount of ground water cant compare long distances variable related to acidity. cant say how old just <> than this that bone. Therefore, older bones have more fluorine & uranium limitations and disadvantages. Similar artifacts are grouped together- seriation: relative dates are assigned to an artifact if it matches other artifacts already recognized within a well established typological system limitations-regionally dependant. Based of the relative dating of pollen grains: all flowering plants produce pollen.
