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Archaeomagnetic Dating

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Chronometric Dating in Archaeology

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Archaeomagnetic dating is based on the comparison of directions, intensities or polarities with master records of change. Archaeomagnetic direction and archaeointensity dating are regional pattern-matching techniques, whereas magnetic reversal dating is a global pattern-matching method. Secular variation dating using archaeomagnetic directions and archaeointensities has been used for Neolithic and younger cultures. Directional dating can sometimes be as good as ±25 years. Magnetic reversal stratigraphy has been useful in dating hominid sites for paleoanthropologists, with precisions of about ±0.01 Ma, or 10 ka. Besides reviewing the basic principles of these methods, this article describes a number of applications, emphasizing explication of the method and solution of particular archaeological problems.

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