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If you cannot determine the exact age of an artifact, but you know by its composition that it is older than a known date, the dating technique used is called:
 
  a. chronometric dating
  b. relative dating
 c. superimposition
 d. absolute dating

Question 2

Below the primate skull and neck is the _____, a bone found in ancestral mammals though lost in mammals such as cats.
 
  a. clavicle
  b. cranium
  c. foramen magnum
  d. vertebrate
  e. fovea centralis



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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

a



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