Let's go to the site
The study of the strata in an excavation site to reveal the natural and cultural deposits
STRATIGRAPHY
The site of Hisarlik, in______ ? (specific details for location)
northwest Turkey
Name Zenobia's Husband.
SPELLING COUNTS FOR THIS ONE
Odaenathus
How many years difference between 200BC and 201AD?
401 Years
The physical remains of a past culture
an artefact
The measure of rings or a cross-section of a tree or timber artefact to determine the age
DENDROCHRONOLOGY
At this time, as told by Homer's Iliad the King of Troy, was Priam, which was waged war upon the Trojans by the Achaeans (Greeks) over Helen, the wife of...
Menelaus
Why was the Diocletain camp set up
To fortify Palmyra and quell rebellion
When someone has their own opinions on a subject, that influence how they tell stories
bias
Comes from the Greek word meaning 'the discussion of ancient things'. To investigate the physical remains of the past
archaeology
What is the method of locating ancient sites that uses aircraft or satellites to create images of the land to be interpreted for archaeological information?
AERIAL SURVEY
These were some of the clues Schliemann used to figure out exactly where to begin excavating.
the distance of the site from the ocean, evidence of two springs - one hot and one cold, and a hill that might have been created from many cities being built in the same place
What is an Iconoclasm
Systematic destruction of icons for religious, political and social reasons
When did Ancient History start?
Ancient history started when writing was invented
The archaeologists who pioneered Seriation Dating
William Flinders Petrie
A system that allows archaeologists to study the vertical dimension of a site by revealing the time sequence in the layers exposed
THE GRID SYSTEM
Heinrich Schliemann discovered what kind of treasure? name 7 things he found
weapons, gold, silver, electrum, copper and bronze vessels, gold jewellery, including thousands of gold rings
What was the Tariff Of Palmyra
Stone Tablet with taxes listed
A section of land stretching from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf is known as...
the Fertile Crescent
The three scientific methods to date ancient stone or rock
Potassium-Argon Dating, Uranium-Series Dating and Fission-Track Dating
The method of excavation that focuses on the horizontal dimension of a site by uncovering the whole site layer by layer
OPEN-AREA EXCAVATION
After discovering what he thought was Troy, Schliemann decided to excavate this place
Mycenae
2 major languages of Palmyra
Greek and Aramaic
a land named as such because it lies between two rivers
Mesopotamia
Two reasons the British do not want to return the Elgin/ Parthenon Marbles
(any two) legal ownership, preservation and protection, now part of British heritage, belong to world history