The archeologist Flashcards

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Geophysical survey

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an x ray of the site with a machine to look at the soil below

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aerial photograph

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a photo of the site taken from the sky (it might show features not visible from ground level)

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Rescue archeology

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a dig carried out before the construction of a structure

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research archeology

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a site that is chosen because there is a reason to believe that a artefact is there

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artifact

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man made objects from the past E.G tools ,coins and weapons.

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archeologists

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dig up the ground to find clues /evidence from the past left by our ancestors

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Post holes

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dark patches left by wooden poles the soil

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statigraphy

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a method of dating artefacts by recording how low down the object was in the soil(the lower the object the older it is)

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carbon or radioactive dating

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a method of dating artefacts by recording how much carbon14 is in the living thing (the less carbon 14 the older)

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Dendrochronology

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a method of dating wooden objects by counting the amount of rings on it (the more rings it has the older it is)

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