Ancient History Dating Methods

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Across
  1. 6. DNA testing is used to help determine what human groups?
  2. 7. Potassium argon dating is used by what profession to date volcanic rock up to millions of years old?
  3. 8. What kind of historians are largely concerned with developments before the emergence of the first civilisations?
  4. 11. This dating method, otherwise known as TL, is used for dating clay that has been fired
  5. 12. This type of dating is based on the principle of organising finds into chronological sequence
Down
  1. 1. In the acronym DNA, what does the A stand for?
  2. 2. What type of dating method uses carbon 14?
  3. 3. What type of dating uses approximate periods of time?
  4. 4. The ‘official’ name for tree-ring dating
  5. 5. Tree-ring dating measures what around the trees to determine dates?
  6. 9. What type of dating involves the application of particular scientific tests to objects in order to determine their exact age?
  7. 10. What type of dating method relates objects in relation to each other at different levels of an archaeological site?