Términos

Método de datación de materiales u objetos ricos en potasio mediante la medición del monto de desintegración radioactiva en la relación entre potasio y argón.

Método de datación basado en la degradación radioactiva del isótopo carbono 14 en una muestra de material orgánico inerte, que sirve para determinar, por ejemplo, cuándo una planta o animal ha muerto.

Método de datación de objetos calentándolos a 400 hasta 500 grados Celsius o midiendo la liberación de energía almacenada en forma de luz.

Datación mediante procesos de medición que involucran la desintegración de isótopos radioactivos.

Técnica de datación que consiste en colocar las fases u objetos en una secuencia, sin relacionarlos con un año de calendario.

Cualquier instrumento para hacer registros, ya sea en forma continua o intermitentemente, de valores sucesivos de un número de diferentes cantidades físicas, tales como calor, luz, y humedad.

Data included in fields reserved for spans of time. These may be formatted in various ways.

Stones on which the date of the construction of a building is inscribed, located on the exterior of the building. Date stones may appear over the main entrance, on a cornerstone, or in other locations on the building.

In science, the specific point in time when a specimen was first officially discovered or recognized by the scientific community.

Date range of years representing the earliest and latest dates for the most important or principal body of items in the group. There may be multiple sets of bulk dates for any group (e.g., 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 (bulk dates)).

The process or activity of writing, marking, or delineating a date on something, usually indicating when the thing was created, and usually with the intention that the inscription will be conspicuous or durable.

Úsese para una amplia variedad de embarcaciones aparejadas con vela lainta utilizadas para el comercio a lo largo del este de África, Arabia y la costas Indias. Generalmente tiene una larga e inclinada popa y proa. Éste es un término europeo derivado del Swahili y no utilizado por la mayor parte de la general que navega en tales barcos.

Genus with one living species of rare squirrel-like primate and one recently extinct, perhaps within the past 500 years, from Madagascar. They date to the Holocene.

Rare squirrel-like, nocturnal, solitary, and arboreal primate of Madagascar; the sole living representative of the family Daubentoniidae.

Recently extinct relative of the aye-aye known from subfossils (partially fossilized remains). Was two times larger and otherwise very similar morphologically to the living aye-aye species.

French ceramic stew pots with bulbous bodies surmounted by a narrow neck, which slows evaporation during the long cooking process. These have lids with a well that can hold water, which causes condensation within the pot. This type of pot was originally used to prepare a 'daube,' a traditional stew from the Provence-region.

A daughter-in-law is the female spouse of one's child.