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Which of these dating methods is capable of giving the most accurate age of an artifact?
DNA
tree rings
radiocarbon
dendrochronology
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Dendrochronology (tree‑ring dating).
Tree rings can give annual—and sometimes seasonal—resolution, so they can provide the exact year a wooden piece grew a ring (if the outer rings are preserved and matching reference sequences exist). Radiocarbon gives only probabilistic ages with larger uncertainty (though it is improved by calibration using tree‑ring sequences). DNA is not a dating method.
Tree rings can give annual—and sometimes seasonal—resolution, so they can provide the exact year a wooden piece grew a ring (if the outer rings are preserved and matching reference sequences exist). Radiocarbon gives only probabilistic ages with larger uncertainty (though it is improved by calibration using tree‑ring sequences). DNA is not a dating method.
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