Exam 6: Chronology Building How To Get A Date

Radiocarbon dating was able to determine that the Shroud of Turin:

Electron spin resonance is a trapped charge dating method primarily used to date:

Ichtucknee Blue on White ceramics were manufactured from AD 1600 to 1650. Excavating a historic site in Georgia, you find bits of broken Ichtucknee Blue on White plates. Therefore, you know that the terminus post quem date on this site is:

The radiocarbon dating technique was discovered by:

Archaeologists know that Folsom points date to between 10,300 and 10,900 radiocarbon years ago. If an archaeologist finds a Folsom point in a site, and assumes that the site dates to between 10,300 and 10,900 years ago, the archaeologist is using which of the following in his or her reasoning?

Dating techniques tell us about cultural activities.

A relative dating method that orders artifacts based on the assumption that one cultural style slowly replaces an earlier style over time is:

The most effective technique to date organic material older than 75,000 years is radiocarbon dating.

Who developed the technique of dendrochronology, or tree ring dating?

While useful in geology, the index fossil concept has little archaeological utility.

A relative date is:

One strength of the AMS dating technique is that it requires a much smaller sample of organic material than needed in the standard radiocarbon technique.

If you were interested in examining trends in pottery style change through time which of the following methods would you use?

Plants that are of similar ages and that grew in the same soil could produce different radiocarbon ages due to:

What exactly does dendrochronology attempt to date?

We can expect that continual advances in dating methods will

In trapped charge dating methods, the amount of gamma radiation emitted by sediments is measured by:

Historic archaeologists can use the length of old clay pipes to determine the age of a historic site.

The index fossil concept:

If an archaeologist uses thermoluminescence to date stone tools that appear to have been burned, the date will indicate when the tools were last burned, but not necessarily how long ago the tools were made.