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| Study of ancient humans based on fossil evidence |
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| The study of how bones and other materials came to be buried in the earth and preserved as fossils |
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| Artifacts - objects made or modified for use by hominins Features - immovable residue of human occupation |
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based on measurable regular rate of radioactive decay of unstable isotopes.
Measured in half-lives (amount of time it takes for 1/2 of the mass of unstable isotope to transmute to the stable isotope, unstable becomes stable at a rate of 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 etc…) |
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| form of dating that does not give the exact age of an artifact, but meant to give the relative order of past events. |
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| based on periodic reversals of polar magnetism. only measures inorganic material. |
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