General
The tool archeologist most commonly use to excavate.
What is a trowel?
Allowed for the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
Roman city destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 79 CE.
What is Pompeii
Deals with the excavation and analysis of human remains.
What is Bioarcheology?
Absolute dating method for organic material.
What is radio-carbon dating?
What archeologist use to measure depth and location.
What is a datum?
Cuneiform clay tablets addressed to Ea-nāṣir contain complaints of the quality of his...
What is copper?
What is Machu Pichu?
Studies the effects of human activity on the environment.
What is environmental archeology?
Ancient american civilization associate with sculptures of giant stone heads.
Who are the Olmec?
The four states of "civilization".
What are tribes, bands, chiefdoms, and states?
A collection sculptures found buried near the tomb of China's first emperor, Qin Shi Huang.
What is the Terracotta Army?
Considered the "Naval of the World" by the Greeks. Famously home of the Temple of Apollo and his oracle.
What is Delphi?
The study of archeological remains in combination with historical records.
What is historical archeology?
This internal organ of a Pompeian man was turned into glass during the volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
What is the brain?
A method of determining the presence archeological artifacts at a potential site.
What are test pits?
A ship associated with this cultural group was excavated in Suffolk, England. (Hint - The Dig)
Who are the Anglo-Saxons?
The largest pre-Columbian city in the Americas.
What is Teotihuacán?
The study of archeological sites and artifacts found in the ocean or other bodies of water.
What is marine (maritime, underwater) archeology?
The age of the oldest cave paintings.
What is 68,000?
Deposits made flowing water.
What are alluvial deposits?
Fertility figurine dating to 30 kya from Austria.
What is the Venus of Willendorf?
Final resting place of several Egyptian Pharaohs, including King Tut.
What is the Valley of Kings?
The study of ancient peoples, their monuments, and astronomic events.
What is archeoastronomy?
The largest archeological site in the world.
What is Angkor Wat