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Fission-track dating
A dating method based on the operation of a radioactive clock, the spontaneous fission of anisotope of uranium present in a wide range of rocks and minerals. As with potassium-argon dating, with whose time rangeit overlaps, the method gives useful dates from rocks adjacent to archaeological material.
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- Category: Human evolution
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