WSC 2023 Science and Tech Introduction

Give one way to learn about / study history

Which film series focuses on recreation of extinct species?

• Jurassic Park

• Fantastic Beasts

• Lord of the Rings

• Despicable Me

The study of preserved plant evidence from archaeological sites is....

• paleontology

• archaeobotany

• excavation

• plantology

The interpretation of the past from outside the archaeological science community, which rejects the accepted data gathering and analytical methods of the discipline.

• Xenoarchaeology

• Astrobiology

• Anomalous Phenomenarchaeology

• Pseudoarchaeology

When did aurochs become extinct?

• 500BC

• 1600s

• 1800s

• 1200s

The auroch was a wild animal of which species?

Where is Shanidar?

• Iraq

• Iran

• Tibet

• Turkey

what does 'post-mortem' mean?

• before death

• facial reconstruction

• mortuary

• after death

How did the scientists in Jurassic Park create the dinosaurs?

• blood from a mosquito preserved in ice

• blood from a mosquito preserved in amber

• DNA from dinosaur fossils

• Hatching a fossilised dinosaur egg

Why can scientists today not recreate dinosaurs?

• it's too dangerous

• not enough DNA for a whole genome

• they have no living relatives

• cloning has been internationally banned