By the end of the course, students will be expected to demonstrate the following core competencies:

- know Radioactive Methods of Dating, Methods Based on Stored Energy Emitted as a Result of the Radioactive Impurity Decay, Non-Radioactive Methods, Methods Based on Natural Rhytmic Processes, Dating By Flora and Fauna.

- apply appropriate instrumental methods of analysis to problems in archeological sciences such as Infrared, Fluorescence, UV-vis and X-ray Spectroscopic Techniques.