Archaeology and history
S.S quiz, on archeaology, and history.
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- Primary Source
- Imformation about people or events recorded at the time
- Nomad
- People who have traveled from place to place
- Prehistory
- The period of time before writing was invented
- Fossil
- Imprints from animals and palnts
- History
- The record events of people
- Domesticate
- During the new stone age people learned to tame wild animals
- Site
- The place or area to be excavated
- Fertile
- Subtances that they need to grow
- Catalogue
- A complete list of items
- Locus
- The specific location of where an artifact is found
- Excavate
- Making a hole by digging
- Locus Sheet
- The card attached to the artifacts
- Archaeology
- The study of human history and prehistory
- Oral Tradition
- The written records or stories past down by word of mouth
- Archaeologists
- Scientists who examine objects to learn about the past people and cultures
- Artifact
- An object made by a human being
- Midden
- A garbage heap
- Secondary Source
- Materials created later by people who studied the original sources