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WorksheetsHistorian and Archaeologist
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 40mins
What is History
a study of the past
A study of pre-history
A study of the present
Which of these are example of a primary source?
Diary entry
A biography
A photograph
An academic journal
What is prehistory?
(a)
Archaeology is the study of……..?
(a)
What is a historian?
What is an archaeologist?
Give 2 examples of a primary source
Give 2 examples of a secondary source
What is an artefact?
Bias is an account that……
Judges how correct the information you are using
Represents something as better or worse than it is
Unfairly favours one side
Propaganda is
An account of a person’s life written by someone else
Information that has been deigned to influence the attitudes and behaviours of the general public
A human-made object from the past
This is when events are put in the order in which they happened -from oldest to newest
Chronology
Archaeology
Artefact
This is when archaeologists dig up the ground to find evidence left by people in the past
Archaeology
Excavation
Chronology
Which of these are ways that archaeologists find sites?
By accident
Rescue archaeology
Aerial photography
All of the above
Name 2 tools that archaeologists use
This is a method of dating based on the levels of Carbon-14 remaining in tissue
DNA Testing
Radio-Carbon Dating
Dendrochronolgy
Stratigraphy
This is an x-ray of the ground
Conservation
Excavation
Geophysical Survey
Dendrochronolgy
This is the study of pollen remains to find out what was growing at a site during a particular period of time
Geophysical surveying
Radio-Carbon Dating
Conservation
Pollen Analysis
This is a method of dating artefacts and evidence by how deep in the ground they were found
Stratigraphy
Excavation
Pollen Analysis
Geophysical Survey
A method of dating by counting the ring pattern on a tree trunk
Stratigraphy
Dendrochronolgy
Archaeology
Radio-Carbon Dating
Spooky Scary
(a)
