There are two main categories of dating methods in archaeology: indirect or relative dating and absolute dating.There are two main categories of dating methods in archaeology: indirect or relative dating and absolute dating

What is quantitative dating?

Geologists often need to know the age of material that they find. They use absolute dating methods, sometimes called numerical dating, to give rocks an actual date, or date range, in numbers of years. This is different to relative dating, which only puts geological events in time order.