archeaology
vocab
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- stratigraphy
- study of remains found in layers of soil and rock
- oral tradition
- legends, myths, beliefs passed from generation by mouth
- myth
- traditional story about the orgin and history of people and there culture
- paleontoligist
- one who studies past geological periods through fossils
- dendrochronology
- tree ring counting
- reasoned judgment
- belief based on fact
- ancestor
- relative who lived in the past; person from whom has decended
- secondary source
- info about event recorded after event
- artifacts
- objects made by humans
- prehistory
- history before development of writing
- primary source
- info about event recorded after event
- fossils
- remains or imprint of plants or animals
- excavation
- process of digging up remains of the past
- archaeology
- systematic recovery and study of remains of past life and culture