Zusammenfassung der Ressource
work of an archaeologist - key terms:
- Artefact : an item found under
ground from history
- Carbon dating : using the radioactive
carbon in an item to find out how old it is
- primary source : is something
that comes directly from the
past e.g a letter
- secondary source: it contains info. about a
period in history e.g history book
- Pre-History : time before evidence of
the past was written down
- Rescue/salgyvage archaelogy: when
an old building is being replaced ,
archaelogists will see if they can learn
anything from the place long ago
- Museum: artefacts stored here
- archive: stores papers like letters or diaries
- stratigraphy: date artefacts by
looking at the layer of earth which it
was found
- dendrochronology: count a
piece of woods rings , each
ring equals one year