Maritime Archaeology (SHIPWRECKS) with Chanelle Zaphiropoulos
Ologies with Alie Ward
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How to Track the Age of a Shipwreck
Carbon dating has a pretty big error factor, like plus or minus so many years. The date that you get might be 100 years before the date that it actually sank anyways. So then there's all these other methods that we use. One of the big things would be looking at what's actually on the shipwreck... amphoras and bottles and coins are unique to different places and time periods.
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