Pre-History Vocab

The Study of Humans in all times and places

• Anthropology

• Archaeology

• Artifact

• Chronology

The Study of past through material remains

• Culture

• Archaeology

• Grid

• Analysis

Any object made or modified by man

• Artifact

• Classification

• Feature

• Site

An arrangement of events in the order in which they occurred

• Chronology

• Excavation

• Site

• Feature

The process of studying and classifying artifacts, usually conducted in a lab after an excavation has occurred.

• Culture

• Analysis

• Classification

• Preservation

Different groups of people and ways of life.

• Culture

• Grid

• Community

• Tribe

The series of square and rectangular excavations that archaeologists make while excavating a site

• Grid

• Mindset

• Preservation

• Artifact

Arrangement in groups or categories according to criteria

• Classification

• Preservation

• Attribute

• Site

Keeping something from injury or harm, especially sites relating to our past

• Grid

• Preservation

• Attribute

• Site

The Study of an archaeological site by removing the soil by layer

• Preservation

• Attribute

• Excavation

• Feature