Bill Nye Archaeology

The study of ancient people and their culture is called

• biology

• geography

• archaeology

• studyology

Artifacts are

• art made of facts

• small items left behind from earlier times

• a study of multiplication facts by Arty

• food items

Examples of artifacts are

• pottery, bones, tools, art

• chicken, steak, fish, rice

• temples, houses, store rooms

• dogs, cats, horses, rabits

How does Carbon Dating work

• Shake up your soda (carbonation) on your date

• Find out how much Carbon 12 is left in a once living object

• See how the weight has changed

• Find out how much Carbon 14 is left in a once-living object

What can an artifact tell us? Click all that apply

• how people lived

• what people knew about the world

• what people new about science

• the names of the aliens that landed on Earth

True or False....trash is pretty useless when learning about a culture

• true

• false

To create petroglyphs, you would

• paint on the wall

• hammer one rock on top of another rock

• use a chisel and hammer

• dig up artifacts

Which is a problem that archaeologists face

• being haunted from the spirits

• being hungry, very, very, hungry

• trying to figure out whole story from little pieces

• not getting paid

How do artifacts get burried?

• winds

• floods

• on purpose

• all of the above

True or False, one day archaeologists will be studying what was left behind by kids in 2020

• true

• false