Students study exponential decay and its application to radiocarbon dating. In this exponential decay lesson, students use candy to model the time it takes for something to decay. Students also graph the data they collect and...

Learners generate a time line, interpreting the ways in which past peoples may have used the artifacts at their disposal. Students also develop a poster showing a theoretical stratigraphic deposit, and then analyze the cultural materials...

This article describes the discovery of an olive branch that had been buried by a volcanic eruption on Santorini. This discovery is challenging the timeline of the history of Greek Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations.