By: Michael J. O'Brien & R. Lee Lyman
Stratigraphic excavation is perhaps the best known of the various
relative-dating methods used by prehistorians. Although there are
several techniques of using artifacts from superposed strata to measure
time, these are rarely if ever differentiated. Rather, common practice is to
categorize them under the heading `stratigraphic excavation'. This text
distinguishes among the several techniques and argues that stratigraphic
excavation tends to result in discontinuous measures of time - a point little
appreciated by modern archaeologists.
internal code: A005327
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