This person heads up the expedition and usually has many years of experience. They do the "dirty" work of excavation.
What is the site director?
100
This occurs when strata, or dirt layers, are not level. This can make it difficult to accurately date the material found within.
What is a distortion?
100
The name of archaeologists who primarily work with underwater sites.
What are maritime archaeologists?
100
Characterized by rapid spread of iron tools and weapons by the use of metallurgy.
What is the Iron Age.
100
These were found in a cave by two young boys in 1947. They held both political and religious significance.
What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
200
Works under the site director and is responsible for managing the actual dig itself. They focus on one specific area and do it very well.
What is the chief archaeologist?
200
This refers to large objects that stall the excavation. They can be natural or man-made. These alter the strata in the area immediately around them.
What is an interruption?
200
Some challenges that underwater excavations face that land excavations do not.
What are strong currents, ever-shifting sea bottom, and natural disasters?
200
This was a period in the development of human technology. During this time the bow and cutting tools began to emerge.
What is the Mesolithic Age?
200
This ship sank in 1912. Although it didn't need to be discovered, it is a famous site for excavation still today.
What is the Titanic?
300
This person handles all the logistical matters associated with the excavation. They figure out transportation, employee payroll, and the purchasing and maintaining of equipment.
What is the administrative director?
300
This is very similar to an interruption, but is less obvious in nature. They often move artifacts around or mix them up with other strata from different periods.
What is a disturbance?
300
A challenge posed especially to submerged wood on underwater excavation sites.
What are various underwater organisms?
300
This time period characterized by the development of human technology, and is characterized by early farming and advanced tools: This is usually considered the last part of the Stone Age.
What is the Neolithic Age?
300
After searching for years, Howard Carter discovered this Egyptian "gold mine" in 1922. It contained the burial site of this famous young Egyptian ruler.
What is King Tut's tomb?
400
This team includes a wide variety of people. It includes and anthropologist, a helicopter pilot, aerial photographer, an engineer, and various scientists.
What is the environmental survey team?
400
The assumption that artifacts found in the same layer of soil are the same age.
What is stratification?
400
Since underwater archaeologists have to work at such depths, they are often lacking this.
What is natural light?
400
Characterized by the manufacture and use of bronze tools and weapons, larger communities, and more farming.
What is the Bronze Age?
400
This person was buried in China with thousands of perfectly detailed terracotta soldiers to help protect him in the afterlife.
Who is Emperor Qui and his army?
500
This team is on location to help out the other teams. They set up a temporary laboratory with several stations designed to study the items found at the site. Geology, bone station, botany station, progress site station.
What is the dig support team?
500
What are the three major excavation problems in relation to dating based on stratification.
What is distortions, interruptions, and disturbances?
500
This field is currently still developing. The recent technology has only been around for the past 60 years.
What is underwater archaeology?
500
This age is a prehistoric era distinguished by the development of the first stone tools, and covers roughly 99% of human technological history.
What is the Paleolithic Age?
500
This site was found in England in 1939. An entire funerary boat complete with weapons, cauldrons, bottles, and bowls were the things found inside.