| A | B |
|---|
| Oral traditions | mths and traditions that are passed on by mouth |
| artifacts | something man made or a fossil |
| fossil | bones and imprints of plants, animals, fish,trees |
| written sources | book, diary or record |
| prehistory | before written language was developed |
| primary source | something written or designed at the same period of time |
| secondary source | writing about something that came from a primary source |
| non-written sources | oral, traditions, fossils and artifacts |
| Tollund man | the fossil of a man believed to have lived in 210 BC |
| new archaeology | searching to understand the lives of all people rich and poor. No longer searching for beautiful objects |
| classic archaeology | searching for spectacular artifacts from the past cultures for personal collection |
| Formation | object or record must come to rest and be preserved so that it may later be found |
| Excavation | the process of digging up the remains of the past |
| Dating | the process of determining the age of an object found |
| Interpretation | archaeologists use the info they gather about their source to determine what the source is |
| scientific dating | using the lab to find out how old something is |
| Radiocarbon dating | can only be used in once living things and can date objects from 1000-60000 years |
| dendrochronology | oldest method of scientific dating and can only be used on wood |
| cultural dating | when they compare objects with info that they already have to determine the age |
| absolute dating | they have the EXACT date |
| relative dating | they can only find out whether an object is older or newer than another object |
