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LoginDating methods are crucial to the process of understanding the archaeological record. Dating methods encompass both Relative dating and Absolute dating methods, as well as the interpretation of archaeological context and sequence. Many disciplines of archaeological science are concerned with dating evidence. The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. Category Talk. Read Edit View history.
Not sure what you're looking for? Browse the A-Z index. Archaeologists have two main ways to tell the age of sites and artifacts. Relative dating tells how old something is in relation to other objects, but cannot provide a year or specific date of use. In contrast, absolute dating provides a specific calendar year for the occupation of a site. Relative dating considers how old artifacts and sites are, in comparison to other artifacts and sites.
The oldest and most widely used dating method in archaeology is typological dating. An artefact is dated on the basis of knowledge about the age of other similar artefacts. When you have seen a sufficient number of cars, you can easily see that a Volkswagen Golf is more recent than a Beetle — and that the Golf looks like other cars of the same period. The same applies to archaeological artefacts. But this only allows us to arrange the artefacts in the correct time sequence relative to each other. To get a calendar year for an artefact, we have to use scientific methods.
Chronological dating , or simply dating , is the process of attributing to an object or event a date in the past, allowing such object or event to be located in a previously established chronology. This usually requires what is commonly known as a "dating method". Several dating methods exist, depending on different criteria and techniques, and some very well known examples of disciplines using such techniques are, for example, history , archaeology , geology , paleontology , astronomy and even forensic science , since in the latter it is sometimes necessary to investigate the moment in the past during which the death of a cadaver occurred.
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