Collective term for techniques that assign specific dates or date ranges, in calendar years, to artifacts and other archaeological finds. Dates are determined by a variety of processes, including chem [..]

Finding the actual dates of geological or archaeological objects. Normally expressed as calendar years ago.

any method of measuring the age of an event or object in years. absolute magnitude -

Age estimation in calendar years before the present; also known as numerical dating, chronometric dating.

Dating an artifact or feature by a measure of time, such as years, so that you can say, for example, "This pot is 2,500 years old plus or minus 250 years." (Compare with cross dating.) Antiquities Market

See Dating, absolute.

Absolute chronology or determining the actual age of an object or dating it relative to the present (e.g. l000 years ago or 43 B.C.). Relative dating

any method that measures the age of an object or event in years rather than measuring the age relative to another object or event; one such method is radiometric dating

dates determined by methods whose accuracy is based on radioactive decay