archaeology 2
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- prehistory
- the history of humans before the development of writing (p. 57).
- primary source
- information about events recorded at the time of those events (p. 60).
- kitchen midden
- a rubbish heap, including bones, left in a settlement by he past (p. 73).
- radiocarbon dating
- a method for determining the age of once-living things, based on the fact that their radioactive carbon content decays at a regular rate (p. 68).
- oral tradition
- the legends, myths, and beliefs that a culture passes from generation to generation by word of mouth (p. 57).
- fossil
- the remains or imprint of a plant or animal from a past geological age (p. 57).
- secondary source
- information about events recorded after those events by people who have studied the primary sources (p. 60).
- sarcophagus
- a stone coffin; any coffin (p. 71).
- Excavation
- ) in archaeology, the systematic digging of an area of ground to recover the archaeological record.
- cultural diffusion
- When different cultures exchange goods and ideas.
- artifact
- an object made by humans that is of archaeological or historical interest (p. 57).
- Relative dating
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- independent invention
- When cultures come up with the same thing on their own.
- archaeology
- the systematic recovery and study of tools, graves, buildings, pottery, and other remains of past human life and culture (p. 64).
- cultural dating
- determining the age of something by comparing objects found with information one already has. Usually these are non living things; coins, pots and non living things
- describe an example of a non written source
- jewelry, coins, tools and toys
- describe an example of a written source
- books, letters, diaries, speech, songs, poems and slogans.