Obsidian hydration dating was introduced in 1960 by Irving Friedman and Robert Smith of the United States Geological Survey.
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Modern archaeologists have developed a relative dating system, obsidian hydration dating, to calculate the age of obsidian artifacts.
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Obsidian hydration dating was introduced in 1960 by Irving Friedman and Robert Smith of the U . S . Geological Survey.
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Obsidian hydration dating is a geochemical method of determining age in either absolute or relative terms of an artifact made of obsidian.
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Obsidian hydration dating is a type of dating that uses the weathering rind that develops within artifacts or gravel that are composed of obsidian.
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The use of Secondary ion mass spectrometry ( SIMS ) in the measurement of obsidian hydration dating was introduced by two independent research teams in 2002.