Discuss: Methods by Which Archaeologists Use to Identify, Date, Classify, Record and Conserve Artifacts and Material Culture from Archaeological Sites

Evaluating a site using dating techniques aids the archaeologist in finding a specific context or use for artifacts. Both relative and absolute dating techniques require the analysis of artifacts, whether they be stone, bone, pollen, or tools, etc. The difference between relative and absolute dating is that, absolute dating can find an exact date of how old a specific object is (say 1,000 years old approximately), where as relative dating is an estimation based on other factors of a given site.…