Archeology - How do we know things about the past?

An imprint of an ancient human footprint in stone is an example of ______?

• a fossil

• an artefact

• art

• feature

History before the development of writing

• The New Stone Age

• old History

• Pre-History

• oral tradition

The science of studying past cultures, people and artefacts in order to learn more about the past

• Archeology

• Biology

• History

• Zoology

The process of digging up remains of the ancient past

• carbon dating

• mining

• archeology

• excavation

True or False?

Fossils are the remains of living things. Artefacts are the remains of things that were made.

• True

• False

an object made by human beings; often refers tools or other relics from earlier periods

• a fossil

• an artefact

• a secondary source

• a feature

Jewellery is an example of

• artefact

• fossil

• secondary source

• archeology

Which object could you use radiocarbon dating on?

• painting

• coin

• bone

• pottery

On average, how long does it take for half the carbon 14 atoms to decay into nitrogen?

• 4365 years

• 5730 years

• 10 230 years

• 50 years

Archeologists can start digging wherever they want

• True

• False