Archeologists Historians Anthropologists

​Historians and Archaeologists
Artifacts and Fossils


Historiadores y arqueólogos

Artefactos y fósiles

Multiple Choice

What is the name of this fictional archaeologist?

• Dr. Glass

• Indiana Jones

• Cesar Chavez

• Bluey

Why Study History?

History is the study of the past. We study history so we can understand what was important to people who lived in the past, and to learn what happened to them. History explores the way things change and the way things stay the same. History tells the story of the ways that cultures change over time. Learning about the past helps us understand the present.

La historia es el estudio del pasado. Estudiamos la historia para poder entender lo que era importante para las personas que vivieron en el pasado y para aprender qué les sucedió. La historia explica la forma en que las cosas cambian y la forma en que permanecen igual. La historia explica la historia de las formas en que cambian las culturas. Aprender sobre la historia nos ayuda a comprender el presente.

Multiple Choice

What is history?

• The study of the present.

• A historian

• The study of the past.

• Land surrounded by water.

Who Studies History?

Those who study the people and events of the past are called

historians. Historians are like detectives of the past; they study

how events are connected. They use clues to find the causes,

or reasons, that something happened. Historians also look for the effects, or results, of the event.


Los que estudian a las personas y los acontecimientos del pasado se llaman historiadores. Los historiadores son como detectives del pasado; estudian cómo se conectan los acontecimientos. Utilizan pistas para encontrar las causas, o razones, de que algo haya sucedido. Los historiadores también buscan los efectos, o resultados, del acontecimiento.

Multiple Choice

Who studies history?

• Historians and archaeologists.
• geologists
• doctors
• news reporters

Who Studies History?

Archaeology is the study of the past by looking at what people left behind. Archaeologists dig in the earth for remains of the past. They never know what they will find. They often discover artifacts objects made by

people. Common artifacts include tools, pottery, weapons, and jewelry. Archaeologists also study human and animal bones, seeds, trees, mounds, pits, and canals.

La arqueología es el estudio del pasado a través de la observación de lo que la gente dejó atrás. Los arqueólogos excavan en la tierra en busca de restos del pasado. Nunca saben lo que encontrarán. A menudo descubren artefactos, objetos hechos por personas. Los artefactos más comunes incluyen herramientas, cerámica, armas y joyas. Los arqueólogos también estudian huesos humanos y animales, semillas, árboles, montículos, fosas y canales.

Multiple Choice

An archaeologists digs for fossils and artifacts.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The study of the past based on what people left behind is called ______.

• history
• archaeology
• achaeologist
• artifacts

Multiple Choice

How are the fields of history and archaeology similar?

• Both study people and places of the past.

• Both study people of the past.

• Both study places of the past.

• Neither study the past.

When you see an old object, ask...

Was it ever alive?

A living thing can move and breathe!

Then it will be a fossil one day!

Who Studies History?

Paleontology also looks at prehistoric times. Paleontologists study fossils to learn what the world was like long ago. Fossils are the remains of plant and animal life that have been preserved from an earlier time.

Anthropology is the study of human culture and how it develops over time. Anthropologists study artifacts and fossils, too. They also look for clues about what people valued and believed.

La paleontología también estudia los tiempos prehistóricos. Los paleontólogos estudian fósiles para aprender cómo era el mundo hace mucho tiempo. Los fósiles son los restos de vida vegetal y animal que se han conservado de una época anterior.

La antropología es el estudio de la cultura humana y su desarrollo a lo largo del tiempo. Los antropólogos también estudian artefactos y fósiles. También buscan pistas sobre lo que la gente valoraba y creía.

Multiple Select

Which of these are LIVING things?

Pick 2 things that will become FOSSILS one day.

Draw

Draw a fossil you might expect to find on a nature walk.

*Dibuja una imagen de un fósil que veas en la naturaleza.

Multiple Select

Choose 2 things that are NOT living things (not alive).

They will become ARTIFACTS one day.

Multiple Choice

What is the definition of a fossil?

• Something that WAS once alive.

• Something that was NEVER ALIVE.

Dating Artifacts

How do archaeologists determine the age of these artifacts? Early scientists correctly assumed that artifacts buried more

deeply in the ground are older than those closer to the surface. In most cases, that observation is still true today. Another way that archaeologists date artifacts is by using trees. Each year, trees form a new growth ring. Scientists count the number of rings in a wooden object, such as a house beam, and compare the pattern with rings of a tree whose age they know.
¿Cómo determinan los arqueólogos la edad de los tartifactos? Los científicos suponen correctamente que los artefactos enterrados a mayor profundidad son más antiguos que los que están más cerca de la superficie. En la mayoría de los casos, esa observación es correcta. Otra forma en que los arqueólogos datan los artefactos es utilizando árboles. Cada año, los árboles forman un nuevo anillo de crecimiento. Los científicos cuentan el número de anillos en un objeto de madera, como las vigas de una casa, y comparan el patrón con los anillos de un árbol cuya edad ya conocen.

Multiple Choice

Is this a fossil or artifact?

• Fossil
• Artifact

Multiple Choice

Is this a fossil or artifact?

• Fossil
• Artifact

Multiple Choice

Is this a fossil or artifact?

• Fossil
• Artifact

Multiple Choice

Is this a fossil or artifact?

• Fossil
• Artifact

Multiple Choice

Is this a fossil or artifact?

• Fossil
• Artifact

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