We are using a different a different method of dating at Zagora for a different purpose.
So it was wondered whether this wall may have been built in antiquity at the base of another access path to the settlement.
The only way to determine this was with scientific testing.
Dates are expressed in absolute terms, that is in specific units of measurement such as days, years, centuries, or millennia.
For example, the village was inhabited between AD 14.
The process of describing and recording an artifact's many attributes.
Artifacts that are modeled or molded from clay and then made durable by firing.
On Monday 12 November 2012, Ioannis Liritzis, Professor of Archaeometry from the University of the Aegean, Dept of Mediterranean Studies Laboratory of Archaeometry, visited the Zagora site to undertake surface luminescence dating to help us determine when a wall was built.
This is a wall on a low portion at the south of the site where the slope is quite accessible up to the plateau.
Ioannis spoke to me after his work in the field on Monday and on Tuesday to explain the process.
Most people have heard of radiocarbon dating – a method for finding out how long since something organic (human, animal or plant, such as bones or wood) stopped living.