Vocabulary
Before written history
What is prehistoric?
They study dinosaur bones.
What are palaeontologists?
This was the method for discovering the Terracotta Warriors in China
What is LUCK?
It was an arena for gladiatorial games and events.
What is the Colosseum?
A practice, event, object or person that is placed outside the original time period.
What is Anachronism?
Objects made and used by people in the past.
What is artefact?
They dig up the past.
What is archeologists?
What is Water Sieve
It was created by the Ancient Athenians has a meeting place on top of a hill.
What is the Acropolis?
The 3 categories of people are known to study the past.
What are archeologists, historians, and geographers?
An artefact made at the time of study
What is a primary source?
They study letters, documents and written work.
What is historian?
Form of organisation for an archaeological site which divides the site into smaller boxes or sections
What is Grid System
Most famous landmark with a face in Egypt
What is the Sphinx?
This is a form of art commonly referred to as "treasures of the past" because they provided information about ancient humans.
What is cave art?
They study artefacts for clues about the past.
What is archeologists?
They are concerned with the natural features of the earth, e.g. landforms, water masses and animals.
What is geographers?
A Japanese archaeologist who caused a scandal by burying "artefacts" so that he could claim he found them
What is Shinichi Fujimura
This is a giant mound of red rock/earth in Central Australia
What is Uluru?
These are commonly studied by historians.
What are documents, letters, and diaries.
This concerns the distant past, from the earliest humans through the first great civilizations.
What is ancient history?
They store and display artefacts and evidence relating to the past for the public to see and learn from
What is museums
Used to date formally living things aged between 70,000 and 400 years old
What is Radio-Carbon Dating
This was gifted to the USA by the French after the American War of Independence.
What is the Statue of Liberty?
Was discovered by two German hikers in the Otztal Alps
What is Otzi the Iceman?