Practice question · Estimate
Flinders Petrie devised sequence dating to order Egyptian graves in which decade? Set the slider to the year.
Estimate on a scale from 1850 to 1950.
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- Late Victorian, decades before radiocarbon.
- Around the turn of the 20th century.
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1899 (answers within ±8 count)
Why
The 1890s. Petrie ordered thousands of predynastic graves with no stratigraphy, pure frequency logic, half a century before any laboratory clock existed.
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