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What's the difference between carbon dating and stratigraphic dating?

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  1. Stratigraphic dating is a type of radioactive dating that only applies to matter which was once living

  2. Stratigraphic dating uses the content of the fossils or artifacts themselves to place them in time; carbon dating relies on the layers of earth surrounding fossils or artifacts

  3. Carbon dating places fossils or artifacts in time by measuring their radiocarbon content; stratigraphic dating relies on the layers of earth surrounding those fossils or artifacts

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stratigraphic dating is Archaeologists investigating a site may wish to date the activity rather than artifacts on site by dating the individual contexts which represents events. Some degree of dating objects by their position in the sequence can be made with known datable elements of the archaeological record or other assumed datable contexts deduced by a regressive form of relative dating which in turn can fix events represented by contexts to some range in time. 
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Answer:https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/world-history-beginnings/origin-humans-early-societies/e/knowing-prehistory-exercise?modal=1

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Carbon dating places fossils or artifacts in time by measuring their radiocarbon content; stratigraphic dating relies on the layers of earth surrounding those fossils or artifacts

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