The Iceman
Understanding History
Type of Source
Archaeologists
Definitions
100
The mountain range where the Iceman was found.
What are the Alps?
100
The study of what happened in the past.
What is history?
100
An article found on the computer about life in Ancient Rome.
What is a secondary source?
100
The job of an archaeologist.
What is dig up and explore past cultures?
100
An object made by someone in the past.
What is an artifact?
200
What the traces of grain or wheat in the snow by the Iceman proved.
What is the Iceman had contact with a village where grain was grown?
200
Before writing was invented, how history was passed down.
What is oral tradition?
200
A newspaper article written in 1963 reporting the death of President John F. Kennedy.
What is a primary source?
200
The name of the German archaeologist who investigated the Iceman.
Who is Konrad Spindler?
200
The study of the remains of past culture.
What is archaeology?
300
The purpose of the small net that the Iceman was carrying.
What is to catch birds?
300
Two types of SOURCES historians use to interpret what life was like in the past.
What are primary and secondary sources?
300
Your father tells you stories that your grandfather told him and that your great-grandmother told your grandmother, and so on.
What is oral tradition or a secondary source (you weren't personally told these stories)?
300
How archaeologists figured out what the Iceman's net was used for.
What is they compared it to a kind of net still used in the region today?
300
The time period before writing was invented.
What is prehistory?
400
The age that scientists think the Iceman was when he died.
What is 35 - 40 years old?
400
Besides the two sources from above, the other objects from the past that can tell how people lived.
What are artifacts?
400
A social studies textbook article about Native Americans.
What is a secondary source?
400
Why archaeologists use carbon-14 dating.
What is to determine how old an archaeological sample is?
400
Records of the past that are based on studies of primary sources.
What are secondary sources?
500
The time period when the Iceman lived in Europe.
What is the age of prehistory?
500
Artifacts are objects made in the ___________and can tell us how people lived then.
What is the past?
500
An old helmet from the American Revolution.
What is an artifact or a primary source?
500
What scientists determined by finding and studying the 2,000 grains of pollen from alder and pine trees .
What is that the Iceman died in autumn?
500
How the Iceman probably got the copper for his ax.
What is he found it on his journey?
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