General Differances Between Relative and Absolute Dating Methods
Getting dates for fossils that are found in sites being
excavated by anthropologist is very important. Dates show the
evolution from early hominid specimens to our own species, Homo
homo sapiens. There are many methods that can be used to acquire
these dates, but all of these methods fall into one of two
catorgories. They can either give a absolute date or a relative
date. An absolute date is one in which you get an actual date in
years. Also known as chronometric methods. Relative dates do
not give an actual date in terms of years, but they tell you if
one fossil is older or younger than another fossil.
Ushally relative dates are given in terms of the column of
earth they are found in. This is called striatigraphy. In
sites like Olduvai gorge their are geological layers of vocanic
ash and sediment. When a anthropologist finds a fossil in a
undistirbed layer of gray ash, you know that it is younger than
the fossil in the layer of red ash below, and that fossil is
younger than the fossil in the layer of brown ash below
it.(Johanson 65) The basic theory here is that a certian site
cantians a geolgical column key that is made up of differant
strata layers, the fossils get older as they move down the key,
and are found in differant layers of strata..(Scully 2)
Relative dates have a couple of major problems. One is that the
earth moves in many ways and this can distrube the layers of
sediment putting younger fossils below older ones. Another is
that you can not tell exactly how much younger or older something
is from somethinng else and you can not date differant fossils
from differant sites with thes relative dating methods.
Absolute dating, unlike realative dating, gives the
anthropologist an exact date in terms of calander years. These
dating methods are much more reliable and can be used in many
differant sites with many differant fossils. Absolute dating
bases it’s dates on the natural radioactivity of differant
elements found in the world.(Johnston 216) There are certian
elements that occur in differant forms, these elements are called
isotopes. Each one of these isotopes has a differant atomic mass
than others. Some of thes isotopes are radioactive, meaning that
they give of radiation in either alpha or beta form, as they
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... has a half-life.
C14 is the radioactive isotope of rearular carbon, c12. The
cocentration of C14 in the body is one billionth of a gram in the
body to one gram of C12. This C14 is contantly decaying, but
through animals and plants breathing it is replenashed when an
organism is alive. When the animal dies the C14 intake stops and
a decay that is not replenashed.(Comas 456)
During life an organism have a specific activity of 15.6
disintigrations per minuate per gram of regular carbon in thier
body.(Comas 456) “After life and C14 intake cease and the
equilibrium is halted, radioactive disintigration of C14 occurs,
and after 5,700 years this activity will have decreased to 7.8
disintigratuions per minuate per gram of carbon in the
body.’(Comas 457) This means that the ratio of C14 to C12 left
in the fossil when it is found can give a date in years.
Carbon-14 dating has a half-life of 5,700 years, with the lower
limit of 1,000 years. The upper limit used to be about 30,000
years because after that the ratio was too small to analis.
Recently reaserch by Haring and deVires has let scientist put the
upper limit at 100,000 years old.(Comas 457)
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