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What is the second step in the excavation process?
Digging
Selecting the Plot
Mapping the dig site
Cataloguing
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Examples of this include ceramics (e.g., figurines, plates, vases, and jars), stone tools, and carved bone or shell.
Eco-facts
Artifacts
Structures
Features
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Seeds, charcoal, minerals, and unmodified shell or bone are just some examples of this.
Eco-facts
Artifacts
Structures
Features
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True or False: Archaeology is the study of the ancient and recent human past through material remains.
True
False
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Which of the following are examples of digital archaeology? MARK ALL THAT APPLY.
3D reconstruction
virtual reality
Snapchat
geophysical prospection tools
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Who made "his final expedition to the Amazon, ostensibly in search of the Lost City of Z, in 1925."
T.E. Lawrence
Gertrude Bell, Queen of the Desert
Percy Fawcett
Roy Chapman Andrews
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In our Trash Talk assignment we looked into our own trash habits to compare to trash habits of past cultures. What are ancient trash sites called?
Middens
Mittens
Bidens
Dumps
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What is "removing one layer of dirt at a time"?
history
in situ
stratigraphy
stratum
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What is "archaeologists figure out the age based on research that tells them how things were at different times in the past"?
absolute dating
relative dating
cultural dating
scientific dating
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What are Prehistoric Cave Painting, Engravings, Reliefs called?
Parietal Art
Partial Art
Ancient Art
French Art
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What are the caves in France called that we studied?
La Croix
Lascaux
Parisian
Frenchie French French
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Where is the datum point on an excavation grid?
North end
South end
South-west corner
North-east corner