Multiple choice

Which technique is employed to find out the age of ceramic artefacts(baked in fire),like pottery?

  1. Radio-Carbon Dating

  2. Uranium Series Dating

  3. Thermo Luminescence

  4. Accelerator Mass Spectroscopy

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C Correct answer
Explanation

Thermoluminescence dating measures the light emitted from minerals (like those in pottery) when heated, which corresponds to the time elapsed since the object was last fired. Radiocarbon dating is only for organic matter, not fired clay.