Archaeology 101

How do we learn about people who lived long ago, and things they did?

• From their own books and letters.

• From their advertisements and graffiti.

• From things they leave behind, sometimes buried in the ground.

• All of these.

Scientists who dig bits of history out of the ground are called ____________________.

• paleontologists

• archaeologists

• griffologists

• cartographers

When archaeologists first become interested in a site, they look around to see what's on the surface of the ground. What is this 'looking around' called?

• a survey

• a scan

• a detail hunt

• cartografication

When they begin digging, archaeologists don't just attack the ground with shovels. First, they map out the area in a __________________________.

• minute

• grid

• computer

• huge photograph

Objects found by archaeologists are called ___________________.

• docrementos

• trafalgars

• thingies

• artifacts

Scientists who find fossils are not archaeologists. They are called :

• paleontologists

• guzzilliontologists

• cartographers

• fossilologists

Archaeology has entered a new age, because we are using _______________________ to study the ground from VERY high above.

• drones

• different kinds of sensors

• satellites

• all of these

Satellites are effective tools because:

• from space and the sky, we can see patterns and shapes and color differences we can't see from down on the ground

• they are NOT effective tools

• they shoot laser beams down and blast the dirt away

• they send down magnetic beams and metal artifacts come popping right out of the ground.