"DATING TECHNIQUE" - Humanities
- Field label
- DATING TECHNIQUE
- Field mnemonic
- DTEC
- Field name
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- Dating Technique
- Technique de datation
- Field definition
- This field indicates the dating technique used, or process followed, to arrive at the Absolute Date or age of the object.
- Heading
- DATING FIELDS
- Comments
- NOTE: This field has NOT been updated as part of the May 2010 Data Dictionary update. Priority for the Data Dictionary update was given to those fields that are required or strongly recommended for Artefacts Canada contribution. The Entry Rules for this field will be updated at a later date.
- Entry rules
- Enter the dating technique or process. A semicolon and a space should separate multiple entries.
- Cataloguers rules
- See also Absolute Date (ABD), Testing Date (TD) and Lab Name/Number (DLAB).
- Data type
- alpha-numeric string
- Examples
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- dendrochronology from fossils
- isotopic potassium-argon
- carbon 14
- dendrochronologie de fossiles
- potassium-argon
- carbone 14
- Discipline
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- Archaeology
- Source
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- Archaeology (Specimens) Task Force
- Field label (French)
- TECHNIQUE DE DATATION
- Field mnemonic (French)
- TECD
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