A | B |
SITE | where archaeologists work |
CONTEXT | the place where an artifact is found |
ARTIFACT | an object found at an archaeological site |
ARCHAEOLOGIST | someone that studies the past |
ANTHROPOLOGIST | someone that studies human history |
LAW of SUPERPOSITION | things found deeper in the ground are older |
LAW of ASSOCIATION | things found in the same layer are from the same period |
STRATUM | a layer of an archaeological site |
POTTERY and COINS | can help archaeologists date a site |
NUMISMATICS | the study of coins |
PALEONTOLOGY | the study of dinosaurs |
EPIGRAPHY | the study of inscriptions |
OSTEOLOGY | the study of bones |
32 | number of teeth in a human adult |