CHAPTER 1 ARCHAEOLOGY

Question 1

Five ways archaeologists can find sites to evacuate

Answer 1

-Research archaeology
-Rescue archaeology
-By accident, e.g a farmer ploughing a field and might report it.
-Aerial photograph

Question 2

Name five skills of method used by archaeologists

Answer 2

-Radio carbon dating
-Geophysical surveying
-Pollen analysis
-Stratigraphy
-Dendrochronology

Question 3

Explain radio carbon dating

Answer 3

All living things contain carbon 14 when they are alive, after death the level of carbon 14 drops at a steady rate (older the tissue, less carbon 14 it contains and how little of carbon 14 can tell us how old the thing is)

Question 4

Explain geophysical surveying

Answer 4

Geophysical surveying is like an x-ray of the ground

Question 5

Explain stratigraphy

Answer 5

Stratigraphy, dates artefacts and evidence by how deep in the ground they were found the deeper the object the older it will be.

Question 6

Explain dendrochronology

Answer 6

Also called tree ring dating is a method of dating that uses the unique growth patterns of tree rings as a guide