Experimental Methods of Antiquities Dating

Archaeological researches have been started as an interdisciplinary approach in the field of cultural heritage sciences (especially archaeology as an original field) for more than half a century. It has gathered together the researchers of different fields of human sciences, basic sciences, engineering and art according to their interests in archaeological findings and curiosity in solving human past problems through various equipment and data analysis methods and enabled them to have a scientific and research cooperation under the interdisciplinary field of archaeometry. According to the history of archaeology studies in West literature from the 1950s, since the word was allocated to the group activity or integrated performance of these researchers in archaeology and history of art studies laboratory in Oxford University, the entrance time of different researchers and experts to this interdisciplinary research can be regarded more than before. So that the fields and areas invite the researchers of this scientific approach which have been expanded from only some primary limited subjects and it seems to have become transdisciplinary. The expansion of performance and its entrance into or unknown fields should be undoubtedly attributed to various sciences progress especially knowledge of new techniques and equipment. The research approach of archaeometry has today entered the fields of dating, Provenance, Characterization, authentication,  Science for conservation and restoration, etc. more broadly.