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| A term that encompases all scientific pursuits related to living organisms. |
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| the study of past human life as revealed by preserved relics. |
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| objects made by humans such as tools, weapons, and containers |
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| the study of Earth's history as revealed in the rocks that make up the Earth. |
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| the study of life's history as revealed in the preserved remains of once living plants and animals. |
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| it checks to see if a document is internally consistent. |
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| The benefit of the doubt is to be given to the document, not assigned by the critic to himself. |
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| testing the document against other historical facts. |
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| the work must have direct eyewitness accounts or a second hand report based on eyewitness accounts. |
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| a document that supports the historical document being tested. |
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| the age of n artifact as determined by a date printed on it or a reference to the artifact in a work of History. |
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| The process of counting tree rings to determine the age of a tree. |
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| Master tree ring patterns- |
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| a collection of tree ring patterns written down, over the years. |
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| THE ONLY AGES THAT ARE CERTAIN IN ARCHAEOLOGY ARE THE |
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| AGES DETERMINED BY DENDROCHRONOLOGY ARE::: |
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| UPPER LIMITS FOR THE AGE OF AN ARTIFACT. |
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| Using a radioactive process to determine the age of an item. |
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| The calculated age of an artifact from a specific dating method that is used to determine when the artifact was made. |
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| The principal of Superposition |
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| When artifacts are found in rock or earth that is layered, the deeper layers hold the older artifacts. |
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| strata- layers in the rock. |
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