Vocabulary
Kinds of Sources
Dating Information
Archaeology
Cultural
Contact
100
What is something that was once living?
Fossil
100
What are non-written sources?
Ruins and oral tradition are examples.
100
What is relative dating?
A method of cultural dating that uses items earlier and later than the artifact in question.
100
What is kitchen midden?
The remains excavated from a site including the "Rubbish".
100
What is a megalith?
A stone that was used at Easter Island.
200
What is a secondary source.
Something that explains an event after it has happened.
200
What questions does a historian ask when evaluating a source.
Who, what, when, where, why?
200
What are 2 examples of scientific dating?
Radiocarbon dating and dendrochronology
200
What is searching for spectacular artifacts from a past culture.
Classical archaeology.
200
What is the China Silk Road?
One of four ways that cultures interact.
300
What is a sarcophagus?
A container for burying the dead made out of stone.
300
What is a jigsaw puzzle?
Something that history has been compared with.
300
What is absolute cultural dating?
A Roman coin with a picture of the Emperor on it.
300
Who was Howard Carter?
The man, along with Lord Carnarvon, who discovered King Tut's tomb.
300
What is cultural diffusion?
Whenever cultures exchange goods and/or ideas.
400
What is stratography?
The scientific study of the layers of the earth.
400
What is Mt. Vesuvius?
The name of the volcano that erupted in A.D. 79.
400
What is up to about 5,000 years ago?
The the age range is for using written records to determine the date of an artifact.
400
What is to study the complete archaeological site searching for how all people, rich and poor lived in ancient times.
The purpose of modern archaeology.
400
What is modern technology?
A cause for historians to change their interpretation of an idea about the past.
500
What is dendrochronology?
A scientific method of dating tree rings.
500
What is a reasoned judgement?
We will probably do well on the history test tomorrow.
500
What is a never ending process that is always changing.
The interpretation of sources.
500
What is the valuable information the Koster dig provided?
How people from the past adapted to and changed their surroundings.
500
What is the independent invention of paper?
Evidence of independent invention between China and Egypt.
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