Topic 1: Studying the Past

What is a hardened remain or imprint of a living thing that lived long ago?

• bone

• artifact

• fossil

• secondary source

Who are scientists who study the physical materials of Earth (such as soil and rocks)

• geologists

• anthropologists

• paleontologists

• biochemists

What is an object made by a human being?

• clue

• prehistory

• fossil

• artifact

What kind of scientists find and study artifacts to learn more about the past?

• anthropologists

• archaeologists

• geologists

What do we call the time period before humans invented writing?

• ancient history

• prewriting

• prehistory

• modern history

Where do most scientists believe human life began?

• Asia

• North America

• Africa

• Europe

Objects found in deeper soil are usually:

• younger

• older

To excavate means to:

• sift

• uncover

• study

• dance

The study of how human beings behave, how they act together, where they came from and what makes one group of people different from another

• artifact

• hunter-gatherer

• anthropology

• culture

Beliefs, customs, and practices of a particular group of people or a nation

• evidence

• culture

• artifact

• archaeologist