Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Archaeologist At Work
- Uses artefacts (objects)
- Dating Objects
- statigraphy
- measuring the layers of dirt an object was in (strata)
- Carbon Dating
- All living things contain Carbon-14
- artefacts that were once living can be carbon dated .
- The less carbon= older
- Dendrochronology
- Tree- ring dating
- Counting the rings of a tree.
- Trees gain a ring each year it grows
- The process of digging- excavation
- archaeological site.
- divided into square shaped sections
- identified by numbers/ letters
- Tools:
- trowel
- toothbrush
- spoon
- sieve
- geologists' hammers
- rescue archaeology
- working under a deadline.