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Archaeology Flashcards

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What is Archaology?

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Archaeology is the study of the past through material remains

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What are artefacts?

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Artefacts are objects made by people e.g axes, spears

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How do Archaeologists find their sites?

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Archaeologists find their sites with maps, aerial photos and geophysical surveys

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What is stratigraphy?

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Stratigraphy is dating objects by how deep in the ground they were

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Dendrochronology

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Dating objects that uses the growth of trees

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Radio carbon dating

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The older the tissue of something, the less carbon-14 it contains

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