General
The study of human past through material remains
What is Archeology
Purposefully made things that are portable
What is an artifact
The survey were people walk and search
What is a pedestrian survey
The categories of objects
What is type
When something is older or younger than something else
What is relative chronology
The Study of humans through biology and their history
What is Bio Anthropology
Purposefully made things that aren’t portable
What is a feature
The type survey using pictures from above
What is a satellite survey
The characteristics of an item
What is attributes
Ordering artifacts on style and date
What is seriation
The idea that things happen the same as they do in the past
What is uniformitarianism
The most important thing in archeology
What is context
The layers that get laid down
What is stratigraphy
The specific context of an item
What is typology
Dating based on organic material associated with human occupation
What is radiocarbon dating
The man who divided prehistory into stone, bronze, and silver age
Who is Christian J. Thomas
The law that says each layer is younger than the one below it
What is the law of superposition
Technique used for finding small artifacts
What is a screening
The artifacts features
What is material culture
Dating in terms of calendar year
What is absolute dating
The man who came up with the strategic method of excavation and serialization
Who is Sir Flinders Petrie
the vertical reference point to measure everything from
What is a datum point
The things left at a site that can tell you about the environment
What is ecofacts
The study of the rings of a tree
What is dendrochronology