Abstract:
As time passes by, the field of scientific research in archaeometry that used to
be limited to the quantitative characterisation of archaeological material through the use of
physical and chemical methods, microbiological, genetic, etc. has imposed new complex
methods such as: geo-radar techniques, LIDAR, 3D scanner and GPS, acquiring a series of
new subdomains of processing such as prospection, dating and analysing the provenience. At
the same time, the applicability in domains related to natural science was developed, such as:
archaeozoology, archaebotanics, anthropometry, forensics, land register, while alongside were
developed important imagistic and restoration techniques. At the present time numerous
methods of absolute and relative dating are known. The present study represents a review, that
presents the modern dating methods used in the field of forensics, and more: the method of
radioactive carbon, the potassium-argon method, the method of dating by thermoluminescence,
the method that uses the determination of rare elements in the bones and the evaluation of
certain chemometric markers with archaeometrical value.
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