vocabulary
Early Archaeology
Fieldwork
Important Archaeology
Potpourri
100
The years before people used written language.
What is Prehistoric times?
100
People began in the 1400's digging up artifacts that were valuable to sell to others.
What is Treasure?
100
Getting information outdoors.
What is fieldwork?
100
Archaeologists have worked hard to find this of the first human beings.
What is evidence?
100
This country is north of the United States.
What is Canada?
200
The science of learning about how people lived by studying things they left behind.
What is Archaeology?
200
Artifacts were taken from this to be sold in Europe.
What are the pyramids?
200
Lines that form equal squares.
What is a grid?
200
Relatives who lived in the past.
What is ancestors?
200
Chad is located on this continent.
What is Africa?
300
Objects that include food, tools, clothing, and buildings that archaeologists study.
What is artifacts?
300
A way of life.
What is Culture?
300
A small handtool for digging.
What is a trowel?
300
Archaeologists found this skeleton in 1974 that is believed lived more than 3 million years ago.
Who is Lucy?
300
A very large body of water.
What is an ocean?
400
Old bones of people and animals that harden over time.
What are fossils?
400
Archaeologists can determine the age of artifacts because they are often found in these.
What are layers?
400
A screen with small holes in it used to catch larger objects and let smaller ones fall through.
What is a sieve?
400
moved to a new area.
What is migrate?
400
Sandy or rocky land in a dry area.
What is a desert?
500
Term used by archeaologists to "Dig up"
What is excavate?
500
A group of people living together in one area at a particular time and their culture.
What is a society?
500
These artifacts can easily be broken.
What is fragile?
500
Archaeologist family famous for finding human skeletons.
Who is the Leakey Family?
500
Ice or snow that covers land year round.
What is ice cap?
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