Archaeological Dating Quiz

Review

8 Rules of Relative Dating• Date with Caution• Relationship between artifacts and their context• Date level by latest object in it• Contexts can be dated by artifacts in them• Artifacts can be dated by context they are in• 1st appearance of artifact is more important than its

continued appearance.• Residual artifacts are normal• Sequence Dating• Cross Datinfg

Gridding

• List reasons why Gridding is important when digging a site:

• Can you grid a site on paper? Steps? Border, measure grid boxes, connect lines, name grids boxes

Grids

Keyhole Trenches

• Or Test Pit

Slit Trench

Urban Sites

• Problems:

Rural Sites

• Problems:

Relative Dating

• 2 Types:

– A.

– B.

Absolute Dating

• Two Types:

– A.

– B.

C14

• What is is? How is it used?

• Limitations?

• C14 Decay Graph

C14• Decay Graph

Dendrochronology• Tree Ring Dating

Dendrochronology

• Two important pieces of information obtained from Tree Rings?

– A.

– B.