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History Chapter 2
The Work of the Archaeologist
Question | Answer |
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What is archaeology? | Archaeology is the story of the past from material remains. |
What are artefacts? | Artefacts are objects made by people such as spears, pots, coins and rings. |
What is prehistory? | Prehistory is the history of people before writing was invented. |
How can you find sites? | Above ground, below ground, chance discoveries, aerial photography, underwater evidence. |
Excavation or dig? | Survey, grid of squares, trowels, brushes, sieves, numbered, catalogue, photograph, drawing, laboratory. |
What is stratigraphy? | The earliest layers and finds are at the bottom and the latest are at the top. Therefore the underlying layer is earlier than the layer above it. |
What is tree ring dating? | Each year a tree grows a ring of new wood, it is possible to work out when this tree was growing and when it was cut down by studying these rings. |
What is radiocarbon dating? | The age of a plant, person or animal can be worked out by measuring the amount of radiocarbon left in the sample or piece. |
How is evidence destroyed? | By building work, by storms, by war and volcanoes. |
How is evidence preserved? | In tombs, in the desert, in peat bogs and by volcanoes. |
What is conservation? | The protection and preservation of ancient objects so that they do not decay. |