Vocabulary
Archaeology
Dig It!
Tools
100
To reveal or unearth by digging.
What is excavate?
100
A science who studies artifacts from the past to learn about the people and their way of life
What is an archaeologist?
100
taking a broken-down object and making it look new again
What is to restore OR restoration?
100
Used to dig up large amounts of dirt
What is a spade or shovel?
200
a place where artifacts and ancient cities are found.
What is an archaeological site?
200

to make a conclusion or educated guess using facts and actual evidence.

What is an inference or hypothesis

200
to make a very organized list of ALL the objects found
What is to catalogue?
200
Used for measuring out grid lines to make grid units.
What is a tape measure?
300
objects made or altered by humans including tools, weapons and works of art or pottery.
What are artifacts?
300

the place where an artifact goes to be viewed by the public.

What is a museum?

300

a place where many scientists work

What is a laboratory?

300
Separates the dirt from the artifacts
What is a sieve?
400
This is the study of layers in an archaeological site or dig.
What is stratigraphy?
400

How is an archaeologist different from a paleontologist?

Archaeologists study human history and paleontologists study dinosaur fossils.

400
to keep something in the best possible condition.
What is to preserve?
400
Necessary to draw where artifacts are found on the site
What is a pencil and paper?
500

Rock carvings that show cultural or societal depictions

What is a petroglyph.

500

Which kind of site did Andy Jalbert (our guest) study?

Shipwrecks

500

Cities where many ancient artifacts were found and studied.

What is Rome, Greece, China, and Egypt.

500

Used to dust off sand or dirt from artifact.

What is a brush.

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