Collaborations For Week Four /Science
Field notes are a very important part of anthropological research. Anthropologists use their field notes to make records about what they are seeing and thinking while conducting research. For your collaboration you are being asked to make your own field notes, based on the assigned course materials. As you read the assigned material or watch an assigned video for this week, download the Weekly Study Field Notes document and fill out a new set of field notes in which you are expected to write down important concepts, parts of your reading that you might have questions about, or even content that you find surprising or interesting. Just like the notes that an anthropologist makes in the field, your notes must be clear and easy to read because you will be uploading and sharing them with your peers in the collaboration.Welcome to the Week 4 lab. One of the first questions that people commonly ask about an artifact or feature is
“How old is it?” So in this lab we are going to learn about some of the most commonly used archaeological dating
techniques, and their strengths and weaknesses. First of all, there are two main categories of archaeological dating
methods – relative dating and chronometric, or absolute, dating. Relative dating tells us if something is younger,
older, or the same age as something else. There are three types of relative dating – stratigraphy, seriation, and cross-
