all historians are basically like little pieces of a puzzle, each does a little thing to make a bigger picture of a conclusion to the past, geographers use maps to determine location, archaeologists find stuff and determine, (a) its relative age, or (b) it's absolute age, radiocarbon methods is a more accurate way to approximate age in a living thing since things have radiocarbon, and once a thing dies, radiocarbon breaks down, this is a form of dendrochronology, which has different methods into finding either estimated or exact age, for example, using the rings of a tree to estimate age is dendrochronology. ca. actually stands for the Latin word circa which means approximate, history is the Greek word meaning to know.
all historians are basically like little pieces of a puzzle, each does a little thing to make a bigger picture of a conclusion to the past, geographers use maps to determine location, archaeologists find stuff and determine, (a) its relative age, or (b) it's absolute age, radiocarbon methods is a more accurate way to approximate age in a living thing since things have radiocarbon, and once a thing dies, radiocarbon breaks down, this is a form of dendrochronology, which has different methods into finding either estimated or exact age, for example, using the rings of a tree to estimate age is dendrochronology. ca. actually stands for the Latin word circa which means approximate, history is the Greek word meaning to know.