Test Monday

Be sure to study for the test Monday. The test is on Ch 1 Archeology. Here is the study guide. Many of the important things are on the website.

Chapter 1 Study Guide

Words to Know

Social Scientist
Historian
Geographer
Archeologist
Artifact
Prehistory
Fossil
Civilization

Harder words to know

Stratigraphy
Radiocarbon dating
excavate
ritual


Things to help you study

Chapter 1 in your book
Archeology video from class
Notes from class (flipchart and reading notes)
Your experiences in the mock dig
Article “what archeologists do?”



Questions to consider:

1. What do Archeologists do? How to they discover things left behind from previous generations?
What steps do they go through in making a find?

2. What can the artifacts and things left behind tell us about that person?

3. Thinking of the Lascaux cave paintings, what can they tell us about the people who painted them?

4. Why did the people draw the things they did? (Your opinion!) Why are human paintings rare and animals very common?