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What is the job of an Archaeologist?
to study past cultures, by analyzing artifacts, remains and ruins
To study scientific and historical fossils from dinosaurs
To find cool stuff underground
To study the relationship between geography and fossils
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What is an artifact?An imprint of a plant from long agoThe remains of a person from long agoA food prepared or eaten by humansAn object made or used by humans
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An ancient garbage heap
midden
find
site
artifact
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.An area where archaeologist dig things up from the past is calledsitewashholelaboratory
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Excavate means to
look at something.
dig something up.
label something.
name something.
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Fossil or artifact?
Fossil
Artifcat
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The customs, art , language and achievements of a group of people is their
artifacts
ethnicity
culture
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To recognize or notice something
infer
record
observe
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A conclusion based on an observation
Observation
Theory
Inference
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The scientific study of ancient cultures through the examination of artifacts and other evidence.historyarchaeologyanthropologygeography
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Archaeology is important because it helps us understand our ______.pastpresentfuturedreams
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The method of determining how old something is by keeping track of the layers of soil in which they are found is called.carbon-14 datingstratigraphymiddenfinds
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Which of the following items do archaeologists use at a site?shovelsbrushesbooksAll of these
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.While exploring the woods near my house, I found an arrowhead. Did I find a fossil or an artifact?FossilArtifact
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What is archaeology?The science of how we learn about the futureThe science of how we learn about the past by studying artifactsThe Science of how we learn about dinosaur fossilsThe science of how we learn about things from animal bones
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These arrowheads are examples of -
archaeologists
pottery
artifacts
Native American tools today in 2019
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Belief in an after life reveals that early humans...
cared about the environment
had religious beliefs
advanced in technology
advanced in architecture
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.A screen is used in archaeology to do what?to measure artifactssift through dirt to find artifactsto remove dirt from groundto excavate
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Objects found deeper in the ground are often __________ than those above them.youngerless reliableoldermore important
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A culture that has art, science, government and a social structure
Technology
Religion
Civilization
Social Structure