Discuss: Methods by which archaeologists use to identify, date, classify, record and conserve artifacts and material culture from archaeological sites

Evaluating a site using dating techniques aids the archaeologist in finding a specific context or use for artifacts. Both relative and absolute dating techniques require the analysis of artifacts, whether they be stone, bone, pollen, or tools, etc. The difference between relative and absolute dating is that, absolute dating can find an exact date of how old a specific object is (say 1,000 years old approximately), where as relative dating is an estimation based on other …showed first 75 words of 184 total…

…showed last 75 words of 184 total…relative dating techniques include, dendrochrology, pollen analysis, ice core sampling, stratigraphy, seriation, linguistic dating, and climate chronology, in addition to many other types of dating. All of the dating techniques above are directly concerned with discovering the correct order of events at a site, and rely heavily on associations. Ways in which archaeologists classify, record and conserve artifacts is mentioned previously in "Methods by which archaeologists carry out the uncovering or excavation of archaeological sites".