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The History of Life

The History of Life . By: Rebekah Townley and Maggie McCann. Archeology and History. Archeology is the study of past human life as revealed by preserved relics Any document that claims to be a work of history has to be put through three tests. The I nternal Test .

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The History of Life

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  1. The History of Life By: Rebekah Townley and Maggie McCann

  2. Archeology and History • Archeology is the study of past human life as revealed by preserved relics • Any document that claims to be a work of history has to be put through three tests.

  3. The Internal Test • The internal test to see if the document is consistent throughout. • Aristotle's dictum says to give the document the benefit of the doubt.

  4. External test • Tests to see if the document is consistent with other reliable historical documents • Bible passes this test better than any other historical document of its time.

  5. Bibliographic test • Tests to see if the document has a relatively short amount of time from copy to the original and a lot of copies made in that time. • The bible passes this test better than any other historical document of its time

  6. Archeology in the absence of historical documents • When a absence of historical documents happens dating of the artifacts can still be done by dendrochronology and radiometric dating • If an object has a date or is mentioned in a reliable source of history It has a known age. • Dendrochronology is more reliable than radiometric dating but it has to have a master tree ring pattern. To be accurate.

  7. Relative dating and the principle of superposition • Relative dating is not as reliable as other sources of dating but can still give an absolute age. • The principle of superposition is when artifacts are found in rock or earth that is layered, the deeper layers hold older artifacts. • The principle of superposition underlying assumption is that the layers were formed one at a time

  8. Thanks for the good grade Mrs. Cornforth!  This ends our presentation 

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