The Distant Past (Topic 1, Lesson 1)

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An archaeologist...

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digs up and studies artifacts to learn about people from the past

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A geologist...

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studies rocks and the earth

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Prehistory is...

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the time BEFORE writing developed

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A fossil is

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the bones, imprints, or remains of something living from long ago

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Evidence is...

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proof that something is true

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An artifact is

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something manmade that is left behind from people long ago

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An anthropologist is

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a scientist who studies how people behaved long ago

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Which object would an archaeologist NOT study? Options: tools, pottery, weapons, computer websites

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computer websites

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Archaeologists use several ways to "date" or learn the age of artifacts. Which is NOT one way they date these objects? Compare artifacts to other objects found in the same layer of soil. Measure radioactive material found in objects. They look at DNA evidence to compare these people to other people who lived at the same time.

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They break the artifact into pieces and put them back together.

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Which of the following is NOT an example of an artifact? a village built in 2000 B.C., an arrowhead made by Native Americans, a pot used for cooking on a campfire, the bones of a fish from 500 BC found at an ancient campfire site

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the bones of a fish from 500 BC found at an ancient campfire site