This was a giant ocean-liner that sank becasue of an iceberg.
What is the Titanic?
100
These and twine are the tools that archaeologists use to mark the edges (to grid)of a feature.
What are spikes?
100
This is a fancy word for dig.
What is excavate?
100
This is an artifact this is too big to be carried back to the lab - like a wall or hearth.
What is a feature?
100
These scientists learn about people and cultures through their artifacts and features.
What are archaeologists?
200
This is a simple machine used in Egypt to lift water from the Nile River to land.
What is a shadoof?
200
Archaeologists use this to get dirt off of artifacts.
What is a paint brush?
200
This is one way (through walking) that archaeologists decide where to dig.
What is surveying?
200
This is where archeologists record information such as measurements and including drawing pictures of artifacts, features, stratigraphy and the site.
What is a field journal?
200
These clay statues guard the tomb of the Emperor Qin (Chin)?
What are the Terracotta Warriors?
300
this amn united 7 warring kingdoms to create the beginning of modern China.
who was the Emperor Qin (Chin)?
300
Thia is a test that is used to date artifacts that were once living.
What is radio-carbon dating.
300
Archaeologists use a level to measure on a dig site this as well as a tape measure.
What is measuring the depth of an artifact?
300
Archaeologists use this on the ground and in their field journals to indicate exactly where an artifact is found/located.
What is a grid?
300
Archaeologists who look for artifacts in oceans, rivers and lakes are called this.
What are Marine Archaeologists?
400
Survey, grid, dig and record are parts of this process.
What is the archaeological process?
400
This is the layers of the soil.
What is stratigraphy?
400
This is where the artifacts go from the dig site.
What is the lab?
400
His tomb was discovered by Howard Carter.
Who was King Tut?
400
This is the word that is used to describe being able to understand a site better by being able to look at all of the artifacts from an area together.
What is context?
500
This artifact has 3 languages and helped us to decipher heiroglyphs.
What is the Rosetta Stone?
500
Archaeologists use this to clean other tools.
What is a file?
500
This is the thinking skill that archaeologists use to out togehter thier artifacts, data, research and prior knowledge to help them understand how people lived and what their culture was like.
What is inference.
500
This is used to retrieve the smallest artifacts.
What is a sieve or screen?
500
This activity is what changed pre-history to history.