When archaeologists study artifacts, they look for it changed over time. The text says that the use of seriation, or “the sequencing of functionally similar artifacts based on stylistic differences,” helps determine the place of older or younger materials based on “the simple assumption that object styles change over time” (page 226). The fact that object styles change over time helps archaeologists determine why that artifact even changed in the first place. It could be improved or have better features that the older model didn’t have. The features contribute to seriation because it helps archaeologists determine the differences between the older and newer models of that particular object. Overall, archaeologists look for the differences in
