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Dating Exhibit: Find out how archaeologists learn the age of the items they find through excavation.
(http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/archaeology/dating/)
What is the difference between relative and absolute dating?
How does seriation dating work?
How does fluorine dating work?
How does radio-carbon dating work?
How does thermoluminescence dating work?

When was New Zealand First Settled? - See how radiocarbon dated was used to determine a date of settlement in New Zealand
http://www.teara.govt.nz/NewZealanders/MaoriNewZealanders/WhenWasNewZealandFirstSettled/en
What is the debate described on the website?
What is genealogical dating and when did people first arrive in New Zealand according to that method?
What has radiocarbon dating added to the debate?
What other information was used to shed light on the issue?

A Guide to Thermoluminescence Date Measurement
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~qtls/
What is the basis of TL?
What are the necessary conditions and limiting factors of the technique?
To what extent can TL date heated flint and stone?
To what extent can TL date sediments?








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