Knowra Chronology Chronology Chronology is the arrangement of events in the order in which they occurred. It can describe a sequence within a story, a historical account, or a system of dating.
Timeline : A visual representation of events arranged along a line according to time. Timelines display chronological order in a form that makes sequence and spacing visible.
Absolute dating : Methods that estimate a numerical age or date for an object, event, or geological feature. Numerical dates place events on a shared chronological scale.
Historical chronology : The ordering and dating of events in the human past. It applies chronology to evidence about societies, people, and past events.
Anachronism : A person, object, or idea placed in a period where it does not historically belong. Anachronism violates the temporal placement that chronology is meant to establish.
Chronological revisionism : The reassessment of established dates or sequences using new evidence or revised interpretations. Revisions can alter accepted historical chronologies without changing the underlying events.
Date : A notation that identifies a particular day, month, year, or other point in a calendar system. Dates assign events positions within a calendar-based chronology.
Relative dating : Methods that establish whether something is older or younger than something else without assigning exact dates. Relative order can construct a chronology when exact dates are unavailable.
Archaeological chronology : The ordering and dating of archaeological materials, sites, and cultural periods. It arranges material evidence into sequences of human activity.
Nonlinear narrative : A storytelling structure that presents events out of chronological order. It separates the order of presentation from the order in which events occurred.
Deep time : The immense spans of geological time, far exceeding the scale of human history. Its scale challenges intuitive estimates of duration and historical placement.
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