3.5 Vocabulary

a person who digs up remains of ancient cities and towns and studies the ways humans lived a long time ago

• era

• archaeologist

• fragments

• reconstruct

a period of time or of history

• historian

• preserved

• era

• remnants

parts broken off; small pieces

• reconstruct

• fragments

• era

• intact

a person who knows a great deal about the past

• preserved

• era

• historian

• remnants

whole; with nothing missing, broken, or injured

• preserved

• era

• reconstruct

• intact

kept from being lost, damaged, or decayed; protected

• preserved

• archaeologist

• historian

• remnants

to put parts back together again

• era

• fragments

• reconstruct

• remnants

left-over small parts or remaining traces

• fragments

• preserved

• remnants

• reconstruct