Relative Dating Methods

question 9

Multiple Choice

Relative dating methods

• A) provide an age estimate for a specimen or deposit in relation to another specimen or deposit.
• B) are the only way to determine a realistic age of a specimen or deposit.
• C) provide the best age estimates for fossils of our relatives, the hominids.
• D) are not of much use to either archaeologists or paleoanthropologists.
• E) have been subject to significant advances over the last 50 years.

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