In archaeology, seriation is a relative dating method in which assemblages or artifacts from numerous sites in the same culture are placed in chronological order. Seriation is a standard method of dating in archaeology. It can be used to date stone tools, pottery fragments, and other artifacts.

What is frequency seriation?

Frequency seriation is a technique that produces chronological sequences by arranging descriptions of assemblages so that the frequencies of artifact classes jointly form unimodal distributions.