SciShow: 4 Ways to Date an Archaeological Site

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Content of the Lesson: From wasps nests to nuclear reactors. Here are just a few clever ways archeologists figure out how old something is. Hosted by: Olivia Gordon SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Jeffrey McKishen, Scott Satovsky Jr, James Knight, Sam Buck, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, Charles George, Christoph Schwanke, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/radiocarbon-dating.html http://www.nbcnews.com/id/23940463/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/experts-use-poop-date-first-north-americans/ https://geoinfo.nmt.edu/labs/argon/methods/home.html https://www.geo.arizona.edu/~reiners/geos474-574/Kelley2002.pdf https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/everything-worth-knowing-about-scientific-dating-methods https://www.thoughtco.com/luminescence-dating-cosmic-method-171538 http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.539.9367&rep=rep1&type=pdf https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/greekpast/4929.html https://science.jrank.org/pages/1952/Dating-Techniques-Thermoluminescence-dating.html https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/dating-in-archaeology https://www.dri.edu/luminescence-lab/luminescence-applications http://in-africa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Grun-R-Stringer-1991-Archaeometry-ESR_AMH-origins.pdf https://journals.openedition.org/quaternaire/8003 https://www.spectroscopyeurope.com/component/content/article/3328-dating-fossil-teeth-by-electron-paramagnetic-resonance-how-is-that-possible https://www.britannica.com/science/electron-paramagnetic-resonance https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/human-fossils/0/steps/49022 https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/dating-rocks-and-fossils-using-geologic-methods-107924044/ https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51378317 https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/6/eaay3922 https://www.deerfield.k12.wi.us/faculty/petersenr/SERlATlON%20Project.pdf https://www.thoughtco.com/seriation-scientific-dating-before-radiocarbon-170607 https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/5105337.pdf http://www.greerservices.com/Assets/publications_pdfs/2001SAA_SeriationRA/SAA%202001%20SeriationRAmg.pdf https://edu.rsc.org/resources/defining-the-age-of-a-rock-or-cave-painting/1558.article image sources: https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/carbon-dating-cartoon https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Claudius_Pio-Clementino_Inv243.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arringatore.jpg#/media/File:Arringatore.jpg http://www.dent-wiki.com/dental_technology/formation-of-enamel-amelogenesis/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bradshaw_rock_paintings.jpg#/media/File:Bradshaw_rock_paintings.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thorium_decay_chain_from_lead-212_to_lead-208.svg


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