I cleared up some things in the overall definition. It seemed to focus more on relative dating than absolute dating. There are several more absolute techniques available, I'll add them in when I have the time to pull out my text book from Principles of Archaeology.Sheora 08:59, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
I'm surprised that this article on absolute dating refers only to the field of archeology, as if geologists don't have much use for absolute ages of objects, materials, and events! I don't have time to edit right now, so if anyone finds this before I get back here, feel free to broaden the focus of this article to all of earth science, as well as archeology. -- BlueCanoe 23:36, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this holds true to the field of history elsewhere, but where I'm from the terms absolute and relative dating also applies to the dating of historic events. 62.148.34.4 04:46, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
I removed a paragraph which appeared to be a copy of from here. -- Balster neb 16:34, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
I added a longer introduction, some alternative terms, and a bit of a discussion about radiocarbon dating. There is a great deal more that can be said about absolute dating, but I am afraid that I don't know that much about other techniques off the top of my head. I just saw this one while surfing around and thought that I should add a little something. Mander 19:25, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
This is also true of the heartwood of a tree, which will appear younger than the outer rings of the same tree because it has had less time to incorporate carbon-14 into its makeup.