Archeology 101
The study of the human past through material remains.
What is archaeology?
The pyramids of Giza are found in this country.
What is Egypt?
Ancient Egyptian civilization developed along this major river.
What is the Nile?
Indiana Jones is famous for carrying this weapon/tool.
What is a whip?
This is the name of a person who makes maps.
What is a cartographer.?
Objects made or used by humans, like pottery, tools, and jewelry, are called this.
What are artifacts?
The ancient city of Pompeii is found in this country.
What is Italy?
Mesopotamia developed between these two major rivers.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
Indiana Jones teaches this subject at Marshall College.
What is archaeology?
This acronym stands for a system that stores, analyzes, and displays geographic data on maps.
What is GIS?
Archaeologists carefully remove soil and uncover remains through this process.
What is excavation?
Machu Picchu is found high in the Andes of this country.
What is Peru?
The Inca Empire developed primarily along this South American mountain range.
What are the Andes?
In Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indy searches for this biblical artifact.
What is the Ark of the Covenant?
This is the scale used to quantifiably measure the magnitude of earthquakes.
What is the Richter Scale?
This dating method uses carbon-14 to determine the age of organic material.
What is radiocarbon dating?
The ancient city of Petra is found in this Middle Eastern country.
What is Jordan?
The ancient region of Mesopotamia is mostly located within this modern-day country.
What is Iraq?
Indiana Jones's real first name is this.
What is Henry?
This ancient Egyptian stone helped scholars decipher hieroglyphics.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
In an undisturbed archaeological site, deeper layers are generally older than the layers above them.
What is the Law/Principle of Superposition?
The ruins of Angkor Wat are found in this Southeast Asian country.
What is Cambodia?
This body of water sits between Europe, Africa, and Asia and connected many major ancient civilizations through trade.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
In Raiders of the Lost Ark, the Nazis use this ancient Egyptian city as the location for their excavation.
What is Tanis?
This famous prehistoric figurine, discovered in Austria, depicts a female figure and dates to roughly 30,000 years ago.
What is the Venus of Willendorf?