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Anno Domini
In the Year of the Lord
What is an artifact?
Something made or used by humans.
Technical term for a 'dig'.
Excavation
A popular place for relaxing or socialising
The baths
Tollund Man's cause of death
Sacrifice
(hanging)
Two types of dating: Absolute and ________
Relative
What is a coprolite?
(Fossilised) poo
Name given to the layers of soil that accumulate over time.
Strata
(Stratigraphy)
Name of the man who created the plaster cast technique for human remains.
Giuseppi Fiorelli
Archaeologist who studies bones
Osteoarchaeologist
The study of the growth of tree rings.
Dendrochronology
How do archaeologists tell the age of a person when they died?
Their bones
(Sometimes also teeth)
What does excavating ultimately do to sites?
Destroys them
Large, open area of the city where there were temples, administrative buildings, markets etc.
Forum
Archaeology is NOT studying dinosaurs. What is this called?
Paleontology
The year Mount Vesuvius erupted.
AD 79
Artifact analysis happens here.
A lab
Archaeologists know where to dig by ground or _______ surveying.
Aerial
(Air, from a plane/drone)
Give the correct name (in Latin) for one of the rooms in a bathing complex
Frigidarium
Tepidarium
Caldarium
Natatio
Apodyterium
1868
Radiocarbon dating can date organic objects up to ___________ years old.
50,000
Process of remaking an artifact from broken pieces of an artifact.
Reconstruction
Name for something found in it's original place.
In situ
The reason why Roman thought Vesuvius erupted
The gods were angry
From the air, how can archaeologists tell there may be a feature beneath the surface?
Crop Marks