| A | B |
|---|
| Prehistory | History before people knew how to write |
| remains | bones or dead body of a person or animal |
| culture | the attitudes, beliefs, customs of a group of people. |
| archaeology | the study of and search for atifacts in order to learn about peoples of the past. |
| stratigraphy | study or artifacts, remains, etc., found in different layers of soil and rock. |
| site | a place where ancient people lived, worked, or left things and artifacts. |
| cultural diffusion | the spread and exchange of ideas through human contact. |
| interpretation | an explination |
| ruins | destroyed or decayed buildings. |
| archaeologist | A person who studies archaeology and how ancient people lived. |
| kitchen midden | tracsh, artifacts, and bones left by people of the past. |
| secondary source | information about an event made after the event happened. |
| evidence | data or proof of something. |
| artifacts | things made by people that archaeologists like to study. |
| oral tradition | stories past by word of mouth. |
| fossils | remains or imprints of plants or animals from the past. |
| excavation | systematic digging of an area to get artifacts and remains. |
| cultural dating | When you find the age of an artifact by comparing it to another artifact that we already know. |
| scientific dating | used to find the age of an artifact by looking at artifacts in a laboratory. |
| primary source | a book or other information about an event written at the same time as the event. |
