The Five-Minute Archaeologist in the Southern Levant - Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
29. What is absolute or relative about dating?
The Five-Minute Archaeologist in the Southern Levant - Cynthia Shafer-Elliott
Jill Citron Katz [+]
Yeshiva University
Jill Citron Katz is Assistant Professor of Archaeology at Yeshiva University.
Description
Dating is essential to the study of the past. Without knowing when things happened, archaeologists cannot properly interpret human-kind’s development from the past to the present. Fortunately, a number of archaeological and scientific methods have been developed to facilitate dating archaeological finds. These methods can be divided into two general categories: relative dating and absolute dating.