Archaology

Question 1

Remains

Answer 1

Any object people leave behind. E.g. tools weapons, bodies, buildings etc

Question 2

Sites

Answer 2

Areas archaeologists excavate

Question 3

Mesolithic Period time and meaning

Answer 3

8000- 3500BC. Means middle Stone Age

Question 4

Neolithic period (time and meaning)

Answer 4

3500- 2000 BC. Means New Stone Age

Question 5

Bronze Age

Answer 5

2000 - 500 BC period of time when tools and weapons were made from bronze

Question 6

Iron Age

Answer 6

500BC - 400AD period of time when weapons and tools were made from iron

Question 7

Stratigraphy

Answer 7

A way of dating artefacts by how deep in the ground they are

Question 8

Dendrochronology (Tree ring dating)

Answer 8

Analysing patterns of rings inside tree trunks to find out info about the past like weather

Question 9

DNA Testing

Answer 9

Can learn ethnicity of person

Question 10

3D Reconstruction

Answer 10

Using computers or clay to reconstruct body parts.Can rebuild face from skull

Question 11

Bones

Answer 11

Archaeologists examine bones to find out different things about people

Question 12

Pelvis

Answer 12

Shows gender

Question 13

Teeth

Answer 13

Shows age they died

Question 14

Thigh bone

Answer 14

Shows height

Question 15

Skin/Hair

Answer 15

Shows diet

Question 16

Radiocarbon Dating

Answer 16

Way to tell how long someone/thing was alive by measuring the amount carbon 14 in them

Question 17

Geophysical survey

Answer 17

A survey of what’s underneath the ground like an x-ray of the ground

Question 18

Passage tomb

Answer 18

Tomb made with narrow passage 1 or more burial chamber made from stone & covered in grass E.g Newgrange

Question 19

Pollen analysis

Answer 19

Studying pollen remains to find out what was at a site during certain periods of history

Question 20

What’s excavation

Answer 20

When archaeologists dig up the ground to find evidence left by people in the past

Question 21

What’s conservation

Answer 21

When historic objects are protected and preserved so that they don’t decay

Question 22

What’s an aerial image

Answer 22

A photograph taken of the ground from an elevated position e.g. from a drone