Ch 1 Investigating the Past Flashcards
Which social scientist would be most interested in studying a scroll?
A Historian
Which social scientist would be most interested in investigating a cave where early humans lived?
A Geographer
Which social scientist would be most interested to find and examine a lamp or burnt torch found in a cave?
An Archeologist
What is another name for a ceremony?
ritual
What does PREHISTORIC mean?
before written history
Social scientists investigating cave art have concluded that THIS was the way that cave artists signed their work.
By adding their handprint
Some social scientists think THESE had special meaning in rituals.
geometric shapes
An object made or used by people in the past
An Artifact
Name the social scientist that would ask these questions: Who lived in this place? What were they like? When did they live?
Archeologists
True or False: All social scientists look at artifacts and come up with the same answers or theories about how humans came to be.
False. Many scientists can look at the same evidence and come to different conclusions.
Which social scientists look at diaries and documents to try to understand why events happened the way they did?
Historians
What is a hypothesis?
An educated guess
How are archeologists, historians, and geographers like detectives?
They solve the mysteries of the past by asking questions, studying evidence for clues, and forming hypotheses.
How do social scientists think cave artists made paints?
They believe that cave artists made paints by grinding colored minerals into powder and mixed it with animal fat or vegetable oil to create different colors.
