Last updated: March 6, 2023
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The Hall of Game
![San Francisco de Assisi Mission Church Toys arranged in each layer of the soil to show which toy is the oldest through statigraphy](/articles/images/ILUSTRACION-FINAL-2-TAO.jpg?maxwidth=1300&autorotate=false)
Stratigra-what? Stratigraphy!
Archeologists date sites and artifacts by uncovering the sequence of soil and rock layers deposited on top of one another.
Think about an apartment building. The bottom floor was built first -- it's the oldest. The top floor is the youngest, because it was built last.
![Village Toys Village Toys](/articles/images/Screenshot-5_1_1.png)
Take a look at these toys. They were found in a household at Ranchos de Tao.
![Modern Toy Modern Toy](/articles/images/Screenshot-6_1.png)
Which is the newest?
Are the newest similar to your toys now?
Why and why not?