Dating Methods in Archaeology (Part 1) | Relative Dating | Absolute Dating
Channel: Edu Sphere
Date: 2020-07-20

This is the first video of this Series where we shall discuss all the methods / techniques used for dating archaeological sites or the objects found on those sites.

Archaeologists have access to various techniques for dating archaeological sites or the objects found on those sites. In this Video, we shall discuss how the dating methods in archeology are grouped into two categories - which are the relative dating and the absolute techniques.

The following keywords would be covered in this video.
Relative Dating
Absolute Dating
Stratigraphy
Principle of Original Horizontality
principle of superposition
Typology
assemblages

Link to the other Videos in the Series:
Part-1 - You are here now.
Part-2 - https://youtu.be/NEONnVmU68k
Part-3 - https://youtu.be/2xLaH0ueb1M
Part-4 - https://youtu.be/YnVRGh7Edvw
Part-5 - https://youtu.be/NvxPXlegDrI
Part-6 - https://youtu.be/ZxfQ_XIny-E
Part-7 - https://youtu.be/ivSp97pJYwk
Part-8 - https://youtu.be/iQR4AOZTT98
Part-9 - https://youtu.be/xQCRzhdet1M

Reference to some images used in this video:
https://www.crowcanyon.org/images/graphics/stratigraphic_profile.jpg
https://www3.nd.edu/~cneal/PlanetEarth/Lab-GeologicTime/FossilSucc.jpg
http://adventuregeology.blogspot.com/2013/06/stratigraphy.html