Finding Clues To The Past
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Finding Clues To The Past
How do archaeologists uncover the story of early peoples?
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What is archaeology?• Archaeology is the
study of past human life
Archeologist Matt Mattson holds a rock that may have been used as a hammering tool between 13,000 and 15,000 years ago.
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Working Together Archaeologists are scientists who learn about early people - study traces of early settlements, prehistoric people - figure out the age, meaning of artifacts—human-made
objects (from the past)
Anthropologists study culture—way of life of a group of people
- study beliefs, common language, shared ways of doing things
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Studying Fossils Evidence of early people can be
found in fossils - fossils—remains of early life
preserved in ground - human fossils include pieces of
teeth, skulls, other bones
Archaeologists try to figure out ages of fossil remains, and artifacts
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EQ: How do we learn about Archaeology? Archaeologists have three major
ways of learning about a civilization, they are:
1. Research2. Fieldwork3. Laboratory Analysis
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1. Research
Archaeologists use two methods to find out what an artifact is and how it was used:
• Historical Approach• Cross-cultural Comparison
How do we know what an artifact is?
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Method #1: Historical ApproachWatching how people in modern times use a similar object (living in the same area)
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Method #2: Cross-Cultural ComparisonWatching how people from another culture use a similar object (Today)
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2. Fieldwork• After the first research is done,
archaeologists go outdoors and look for archaeological sites—places where artifacts are found
• Archaeologists usually know where to look for these sites.
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3. Laboratory Analysis• Laboratory Analysis can be used to
find out what an artifact is made of and how old it is.
• A common method of finding the age of an artifact is radiocarbon dating, which can find the age of something that was once alive.
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History Detectives: • List 2-3 things that they want to find out about the artifact
• List 2-3 tools or methods that are used to learn about the artifact
• What things are learned about the artifact? List 2-3 facts that are learned.