Vocabulary
To reveal or unearth by digging.
what is excavate?
A science who studies artifacts from the past to learn about the people and their way of life.
What is an archaeologist?
Taking a broken-down object and making it look new again.
What is to restore or restoration?
Used to dig up large amounts of dirt.
What is a spade or shovel?
archaeologists study dinosaurs.
What is no?
A place where artifacts and ancient cities are found.
What is an archaeological site?
A scientist who studies ancient symbols and language.
Who is a linguist?
To make a very organized list of all the objects found.
What is to catalogue?
Used for measuring out grid lines to make grid units.
What is a tape measure?
The theme that we are studying at camp.
What is archaeology?
Objects made or altered by humans including tools, weapons and works of art or pottery.
What are artifacts?
A person who studies the earth like rocks, ice, or liquid.
Who is a geologist?
Three adults who are teaching about archaeology at camp.
Who are Mr. I, Ms. Day, and Ms. Chiquita?
Separates the dirt from the artifacts.
What is a sieve or sifting screen?
The job of an archaeologist
What is the study of past human life and culture?
The scientific study of past human life and culture through remains like artifacts, architecture, and biofacts.
What is Archaeology?
A person who studies plants, pollen, either from today, or a long time ago.
What is a botanist?
To keep something in the best possible condition.
What is to preserve?
Necessary to draw where artifacts are found on the site.
What is a pencil and paper?
How are artifacts different from fossils.
What are artifacts made by people and fossils are remains of plants and animals?
To make a conclusion or educated guess using facts and actual evidence.
What is an inference?
A scientist who studies bones, skeletons and mummies to discover the culture from which they came.
What is a paleo-anthropologist?
The layers of earth which can be disrupted by natural disasters or by humans.
What is a strata or stratum?
Tools that an archaeologist would use at a dig site.
What are sifting screens, shovels, brushes and picks?
What makes something an artifact.
What are objects made by people?