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Describe relative dating

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in archaeology, the arrangement of artifacts or events in a sequence relative to one to the other but if there is no ties calendrically measured time; the arrangement of artifacts in a typological sequence or seriation
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Relative dating is the science of determining therelative order of past events (i.e., the age of an object in comparison to another), without necessarily determining their absolute age, (i.e. estimated age).
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