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Arch. Quiz 3Absolute Dating - ANS-A date expressed in specific units of scientific measurement,
such as days, years, centuries, or millennia; absolute determinations attempting to
pinpoint a discrete, known interval in time.
Relative Dating - ANS-Dates expressed relative to one another (for instance, earlier,
later, more recent) instead of in absolute terms.
Seriation - ANS-A relative dating method that orders artifacts based on the assumption
that one cultural style slowly replaces an earlier style over time
Dendrochronology - ANS-The use of annual growth rings in trees to assign calendar
ages to ancient wood samples
Lab responsibilities (3) - ANS-conserve, categorize, analyze artifacts
Typology - ANS-The systematic arrangement of material culture into types.
Periods - ANS-A length of time designated by substantial changes in artifact or feature
types over time recognizable in the archaeological record. These tend to be big
changes over large regions
Phases - ANS-Designated within periods and are the smallest length of time in the
smallest culture area that we can recognize in the archaeological record.
Trapped Charge Dating - ANS-The process of setting an object's clock to zero in
trapped charge dating.
Thermoluminescence - ANS-Dates ceramics and burned stone
Optically Stimulated luminescence - ANS-Dates quartz and feldspar in eolian (moved by
wind) sands.
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