![]() This ash is still sometimes found today in stratigraphic profiles, buried under other deposits of sediment. ![]() About 7600 years ago, Alberta was blanketed in ash after the Mazama volcanic eruption. ![]() A common example of relative dating in Alberta is by using Mazama Ash. Relative dating puts sites or artifacts “in order” by simply determining if one event happened before or after another. Two main types of dating are applied to archaeological sites when possible– relative and absolute dating. Knowing the date of an archaeological site is one of the things that makes it most interesting – when were people here?
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