Types of Social Scientists

What is an artifact?

• A true statement

• Objects that people have left behind

• A piece of art in a gallery

• A lie told about humans

An expert who studies and records the past by analyzing artifacts and documents

• Archeologist

• Geographer

• Historian

An expert who studies the past by digging up and examining objects that people left behind, or artifacts.

• Archeologist

• Historian

• Geographer

An expert who studies and creates maps of Earth's natural and human-made features

• Archeologist

• Historian

• Geographer

Which expert asks: Who lived in this place? When did they live here? What were they like?

• Archeologists

• Historians

• Geographers

Which expert asks: Where did people live? How did they use their environment to survive?

• Archeologist

• Historian

• Geographer

Which expert asks: What happened in the past?

• Archeologist

• Historian

• Geographer

before written history

• Artifact

• Geographer

• Ritual

• Prehistoric

Relating to a ceremony, such as a religious ceremony

• Archeologist

• Artifact

• Ritual

• Prehistoric

Archeologist: What does it mean to excavate?

• To answer

• To dig

• To return