Chapter 1 Lesson 1

the study of objects to learn about past human life

• artifact

• conclusion

• scholarly

• archaeology

an object made by people

• conclusion

• artifact

• archaeology

• anthropology

the study of human culture and how it develops over time

• artifact

• scholarly

• anthropology

• conclusion

Ten decades is call a

• Era

• Century

• Millennium

• leap year

When sequencing events in order a historian may use a...

• slide presentation

• time line

• calendar

• journal

Labels on a time line include which of the following...

• AD

• PM

• AM

• BC

Pottery is to archaeology as bone is to

• Archaeology

• Anthropology

• paleontology

• geology

How many years in a century

• 1000

• 10

• a long period of time

• 100

Historians divide the past into larger blocks of time known as...

• fossils

• decades

• eras

• periods

An example of an artifact is..

• an ax from caveman times

• an ancient scroll

• both a and b

• none of the above