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by Max Power on March 8th, 2005

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Are there other methods of dating artifacts besides carbon dating?

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  • by LaserFalson on August 4th, 2005

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    Absolutely,
    To put it very briefly: If an artifact is found in the contect of a scientific excavation, it can be dated with a great amount of certainty. Startigraphy allows an archaeologist to look at the artifact as if from the day it was deposited, because stratigraphic anaylsis lets you see what other artifacts laid on the same plane as it. If you find a coin (for example) with a date on it and you can put the nail you found (for example) on the same stratum as it, you can date them to approximately the same period. The general rule is that all artifacts can work there way up to the surface, but they can't work their way down, so in this way you can arrive at a terminus anti-quem.

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