A substance added to clay in order to reduce breakage caused by shrinkage and firing,
What is temper?
100
This is the material that most cutting edges were made of prior to 5,000 years ago.
What is stone?
100
A branch of geology which relates to soils.
What is pedology?
100
The term B.P. in dating means this.
What is before present?
100
The term m.y.a. in dating means this.
What is millions of years ago?
200
The oldest ceramic containers come from this place.
What is Asia?
200
This concept describes how materials break.
What is fracture mechanics?
200
This substance is made of gravel, shell, and silt, among other elements.
What is sediment?
200
The term A.D in dating means this.
What is anno Domini, in the year of the Lord?
200
These items are useful in relative dating because there may be hundreds of them at historical archaeology sites and they were shared in public places like taverns.
What are clay stone pipes?
300
This is the most common method for shaping pottery in the past.
What is coiling by hand?
300
This is a hammer that is of equal or greater hardness to the core.
What is a hard hammer?
300
This is what the top of the soil is referred to as.
What is the o-horizon or plowzone?
300
This type of analysis is based upon examining layers of the earth.
What is stratigraphy?
300
This is the half-life of Carbon-14 (within 1,000 years).
What is 5,730 years?
400
This is the meaning that archaeologists extract from surface decorations on ceramic vessels.
What is individual or group identity?
400
A projectile point is considered to be this kind of tool.
What is a bifacial tool?
400
This concept states that the processes of erosion and deposition seen today have always been at work.
What is uniformitarianism?
400
This is the kind of dating that can be used on volcanic ash.
What is radiopotassium or potassium argon dating?
400
This archaeologist discovered the footprints at Laetoli.
Who is Mary Leakey?
500
This region had an abundance of projectile points, rather than unifaces.
What is The New World?
500
This method is used to describe intricate stratigraphy in a schematic way.
What is The Harris Matrix?
500
This is the maximum age of items that dendrochronology can be used to date.