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The Archaeologist
Artefact - Chapter 2 - 1st Year History
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bronze Age | The period of time when people made tools and weapons using bronze |
| Excavation | When archaeologists dig up the ground to find evidence left by people in the past |
| Aerial Photograph | A photograph taken from an elevated position |
| Test Trench | A sample hole dug to judge whether is it worth excavating the whole site |
| Topsoil | The topmost, most recent layer of soil |
| Radio-carbon dating | A method of dating based on the falling levels of carbon-14 in tissue over time |
| Mesolithic | of the Middle Stone Age |
| Hunter-gatherer | Someone who hunted animals for food and gathered berries and nuts |
| Geophysical survey | a survey of what's underneath the ground, like and x-ray of the ground |
| Passage tomb | A narrow passage with one or more burial chambers, made of large stones and covered in earth or stone |
| Neolithic | Of the New Stone Age. This is when the first farmer came to Ireland |
| Corbelled roof | A domed roof, built by placing stone overlapping each other until the meet at the top |
| Pollen analysis | The studying of pollen remains to tell archaeologists what was growing during the time period |
| Stratigraphy | A method of dating arefacts and evidence by how deep into the ground they were when found |
| Dendrochronology | A method of dating that uses the unique growth patterns of tree rings as a guide |
| Iron Age | The period of time when people made weapons out of iron |
| Conservation | When historic objects are protected and preserved so that they do not decay |
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Sarah C. Lynch
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