Sep 05 2009
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Better Dating Through Volcanoes: CyArk
Every so often, something so big happens – usually a natural disaster – that its presence in the archaeological record is both instantly recognizable and incredibly useful for establishing a fixed, non-relative date at a given site. The only drawback is that these disasters are usually so huge that they wipe out everything in their path. A great example of this type of event is the meteor strike that many scholars believe was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs.
