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A tool for GENTLY clearing soil off an artefact without damaging it.
What is a brush?
The TWO terms used to describe all the dates BEFORE the birth of Jesus.
What are BC and BCE?
A type of analysis where tiny plant grains are studied to find out what plants were growing in the area of the site long ago.
What is Pollen Analysis?
The name given to the bog body (head and torso) found in a peat bog in County Meath in 2003
Who is Clonycavan Man?
When archaeologists dig up the ground to find evidence left behind by people in the past
What is an Excavation?
A small triangular hand-tool used to dig and scrape away the delicate layers of a site
What is a trowel
The historical period when humans FIRST began to use metallic tools
What was the Bronze Age?
Archaeologists use this method to test bones and work out what ancient humans may have looked like
What is DNA testing / analysis?
The name for the type of houses that Iron Age people in Ireland lived in
What is a Roundhouse?
The loose dirt and soil that is the uppermost, recent LAYER on a site
What is Top Soil?
This tool (also used in kitchens) separates small artefacts from loose soil
What is a sieve?
The exact TWO terms for the dates that come AFTER the birth of Jesus.
What are CE (Common Era) and AD (Anno Domini?
A method of dating that analyses tree rings inside old tree trunks
What is Dendrochronology?
The name for the People / Culture that made the Gold "Broighter Collar" found in Co. Derry in 1896
The Celts
хүмүүсийн үлдээсэн зүйлсийг олж, судлах замаар өнгөрсөн үеийг судлах
Археологи гэж юу вэ?
This simple tool/method helps record the exact location of artefacts on a site, before they are removed
What is a Site Grid (String & Compass)?
The name for the period of the Stone Age that Otzi the Iceman comes from.
What is the Neolithic Period?
(3,500-2,000 BCE)
Dating the age of artefacts by looking at the layer of the ground they were found in.
What is Stratigraphy?
A distinctive feature of the bog-body found in County Meath in 2003, that makes historians believe he may have been a King
What was Clonycavan Man's Hairstyle like?
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Archaeologists use this to record notes, sketches and details about everything they find on a site
What is a Site Book?
The period of Stone Age history immediately before Otzi the Iceman (8,000-3,500 BCE)
What is the Mesolithic Period?
What is Geophysical Surveying?
An artefact found beside the river Liffey in the centre of Dublin (in the 1960s) that dates back to the beginnings of Dublin 1000 years ago
What is a Viking Ship (Sea Stallion)?
The type of archaeology that relies on the study of OLD MAPS and BOOKS for information as to where historical sites once were
What is Research Archaeology