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Related Internet Sites
Relative Dating Methods:
- Fluorine Analysis (description of the technique; Wikipedia)
- Pollen Analysis (description of the technique; Plymouth and District Archaeological Society, U.K.)
- Seriation (description of the technique; Wikipedia)
Radiocarbon Dating:
- Beta Analytic Inc. (a commercial U.S. C-14 dating laboratory)
- INSTAAR Laboratory for AMS Radiocarbon Preparation and Research (accelerator mass spectrometry C-14 dating at University of Colorado)
- Radiocarbon (the international journal for C-14 dating)
- Radiocarbon Web Information (created by Tom Higham, Radiocarbon Laboratory, University of Waikato, New Zealand)
Other Chronometric Dating Methods:
- All About Tree Rings (a brief introduction explaining what tree rings are and why trees have them)
- Amino Acid Racimization (description of the technique; Wikipedia)
- Archaeomagnetism (description of the technique; Illinois State Museum)
- Argon-Argon (description of the technique; Wikipedia)
- Dendrochronology (article by Peter Ian Kuniholm from American Journal of Archaeology 1995)
- Electron Spin resonance (description of the technique; Wikipedia)
- Fission Track (description of the technique; Wikipedia)
- Obsidian Hydration (description of the technique; Wikipedia)
- Optically Stimulated Luminescence (description of the technique; Wikipedia)
- Oxidizable Carbon Ratio (OCR) (short description; Mankato State University, Minnesota)
- Potassium-Argon Dating (description of the technique; Wikipedia)
- Radiometric Dating (created by: Pamela Gore, Georgia Perimeter College, Clarkston, GA)
- Thermoluminescence (description of the technique; Wikipedia)
- Ultimate Tree-Ring Web Pages (created by Henri D. Grissino-Mayer , Department of Geography, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
- Uranium-Thorium Dating (description of the technique; Wikipedia)
- Varve Analysis (description of the technique; Wikipedia)
Other Related Links:
- A Paleontologists Guide to Dental Analysis (useful set of links about dating and interpreting dental remains)
- Calendar Converter (site that automatically converts dates from the Gregorian Calendar to 12 others including Julian, Jewish, Hebrew, Islamic, Persian, and Mayan calendars)
- How Fossils Form (maintained by The Virtual Fossil Museum)
- Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (maintained by the Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University)
- Journal of Human Evolution (articles on biological anthropology topics)
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