Detectives who study the past
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part A
Scholars who study human society
Who are social scientists?
This social scientist is a recorder of the past
Who is a Historian?
The essential question for this unit
What is our human story?
these social scientists use artifacts for clues to figure out who left them behind
Who are archeologists?
A two language dictionary that had a Greek translation of Egyptian picture writing
What is the Rosetta stone?
The 3 types of social scientists
Who are archeologists, historians and geographers?
This social scientists studies written records to find out what happened in the past and why those events happened
Who is a historian?
stories or songs that were created to explain the past
What are legends?
this social scientists study the past by examining artifacts that people left behind
Who are archeologists?
5 lost civilizations were uncovered
When are the years 1850-1950?
Geographers look to answer questions like
How did people use their environment?
In 1700, Italian farmers found they were living on top of this ancient city
What is Herculaneum ?
the study of the remains of past human life and cultures
What is archeology?
Christian Thomsen divided early human history into three ages
What stone, bronze and Iron?
Found by Howard Carter in 1922
What is the tomb of king Tut?
Geographers look to answer questions like
where do people live?
What is Pompei?
Things made by people
What are artifacts?
were used to tell the dates of an artifact by using the rings
What are trees?
Found by Leonard Wooley in 1922
Wat is the Royal tombs of Ur?
this social scientists study the natural features of the earth as well as human made features
Who is a geographer?
What is the Rosetta Stone?
this study began about 500 years ago
What is archeology?
In 1946, Willard Frank Libby discovered that all living things contain this
What is carbon-14
Scientists are able to figure out how old something is by measuring the amount of this left in the artifact
What is carbon-14