"Archeologists Dig for Clues" Quiz

Archaeologists Dig For Clues

Fill in the Blank

Sophie hunts for and digs up places where people once lived. What is a different way to say "dig up"?

Multiple Choice

What did famers uncover with their plow in their cornfield?

• Old coins

• A dinosaur bone

• Prehistoric spear points

• Pieces of broken clay pottery

Multiple Choice

What is smaller?

• spear

• arrowhead

Multiple Select

How do archaeologists decode where to dig? Choose all the answers listed in the book.

• They look at things that people or animals uncover accidentally.

• The use special technology to scan the ground.

• They look for old buildings, ruins, unusual mounds, and sunken spots in the land.

• They look in old books for maps and clues to buried sites.

• They look at pictures of the land taken from airplanes.

Open Ended

Why does the ground people live on turn dark?

Multiple Choice

Which layer of earth gives a clue that people had lived on that spot long ago?

• Lighter earth

• Clay in the ground

• Darker earth

• Burned layer

Multiple Choice

What did Sophie send to the archaeology lab to see the age of the uncovered site?

• Pieces of clay pots

• A human bone

• Pieces of burned wood

• Spear points

Multiple Choice

According to carbon-dating, how old was that burned wood?

• 3,000 years old

• 4,000 years old

• 5,000 years old

• 6,000 years old

Why do archaeologists dig square holes with precision?

Multiple Select

What are some of the ways explaining how things get buried so far down mentioned in the book?

• Leaves fall on it.

• Dust blows on it.

• Rain washes dirt over it.

• It sinks into the ground with time.

Multiple Choice

What did Sophie excavate?

• Buried treasure

• Mummy

• A couple spear points, rocks, and pebbles

• Underground tomb

"Archaeologists love ancient garbdage!"

Why does the book say that:

Multiple Choice

What special name do archaeologists use for ancient garbage?

• Mitten

• Midden

• Ridden

• Hidden

Multiple Select

What can be in ancient garbage according to the book?

• fish scales

• burned wood

• bits of bones

• chips of stone

• broken shells

Why are archaeologists more like detectives than treasure hunters?

Bones, shells, and other remains from this area showed that people ate different animals and plants. Name some of them found on page 14.

​Archaic diet

Multiple Choice

To make a sharp blade, arachaic people sharpened a rock by knocking off flakes around the edges with another rock. What is this called?

• Napping

• Kneeling

• Knapping

• Knipping

Multiple Choice

Archaic people sewed with:

• Bone awls

• Woods awls

• Bone needles

• Wood needles

Multiple Select

Archaic houses were made from:

• Thin tree trunks

• Grass

• Animal skins

• Mud

Multiple Choice

True or false: archaic people made graves for animals like dogs.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

How do archeologists excavate skeletons?

• They dig around it, build a box around it, wrap it in foam, slide a metal sheet under, and lift it up.

• They dig around it and take the bones out one by one.

• They remove the bones one by one and put them in foam.

• They dig around it, build a box around it, slide a metal sheet under, and lift it up.

Multiple Choice

(See map on page 26 for help) Archaic villages had:

• Houses, tool-making areas graves, a butchery, and a midden.

• Houses, gardens, a butchery, and graves.

• Houses and a midden only.

• Houses, graves, a midden, a butchery, and gardens.

Multiple Choice

Which description of wet-screening dirt is correct?

• Dirt is sprinkled over water. Sand and dirt sink; charcoal, fish scales, etc. float. The "floaters" are scooped up.

• Dirt is sprinkled over water. Sand and dirt float; charcoal, fish scales, etc. sink to the bottom and are retrieved.

Open Ended

What do you think is the most important thing to know about an artifact?

Draw

Draw an archaic artifact.

That's it for today!

See you next time!