The skeleton had been found right around the time Charles Darwin published (1859), and its vaguely human appearance suggested it had the potential to illuminate the human past, but only if it were truly ancient.

The growing popularity of online dating The dating scene has been changing over the last decade.

For more information: Example Research: Students have used this lab for a variety of purposes, ranging from dating ceramics from Turkey, dating building sequences at Chavin de Huantar in Peru, to dating depositional sequences of canals in Peru.

Radiocarbon decays slowly in a living organism, and the amount lost is continually replenished as long as the organism takes in air or food.

They are engaged in defining the stages of hominid evolution and their artifactual record, and the assignment of a chronology to these stages.

Chronology is the science of measuring time and ordering of the things in time.

Jim Feathers, this laboratory provides dating service for ceramics, lithics, and sediments using optically-stimulated luminescence (OSL) and thermoluminescence (TL).

This allows researchers to date materials that cannot be dated using other techniques (e.g., lack of suitable organic remains for radiocarbon dating).

For the archaeologist and the prehistorian who deals with that long history of man, time is the most important consideration.

Additionally, since it is capable of directly dating cultural materials such as ceramics, the bridging arguments between dating events and target events are minimized.

The equipment is also capable of dating sediments in order to elucidate depositional sequences at archaeological sites.

The buildings on the Athenian Acropolis were important for trade and worship.

Aerial Photography - The various techniques of taking photographs of natural or cultural features from the air, using balloons, airplanes, satellites, and other sources, in order to study the features in their entirety from a top-down (bird's eye) view.