Archeology Notes
Archeology is the study ______of the past by finding and examining ______.
Artifacts are: ______. Things that are found from the past (______fragments, pottery pieces, ______etc.).
Why do they do this? Why not just read books about these ancient cultures?
The problem is that very few of these ancient cultures had a ______. The archeologists' job is to try to piece together a jigsaw puzzle representing the people of the past. Every new piece of the puzzle helps to explain a society better, and each artifact that the archeologists find is another piece.
Here are some of the things that they have found:
About 20,000 years ago, as the world was entering into an______, enough water was sucked up into the ______that there was land connecting what is now ______with what is now ______. This strip of land is known as the ______across the ______.
It is believed that the first people to come to North America were probably following their ______, like the ______. Over time, these people (who we now call ______) spread out over all of North and South America, setting up different types of civilization based on the ______and______of the region.
There is much that scientists are still trying to learn about these early people that came to the Americas. A very important archeological discovery was made right here in ______, in a place that archeologists call ______in ______, near ______.
Archeologists have determined that people lived in this area almost ______years ago, making it one of the ______archeological sites in ______.
Archeology Notes
Archeologists study the cultures of the past by finding and examining artifacts.
Artifacts are: ______. Things that are found from the past (______fragments, pottery pieces, ______etc.).
Why do they do this? Why not just read books about these ancient cultures?
The problem is that very few of these ancient cultures had a ______. The archeologists' job is to try to piece together a jigsaw puzzle representing the people of the past. Every new piece of the puzzle helps to explain a society better, and each artifact that the archeologists find is another piece.
Here are some of the things that they have found:
About 20,000 years ago, as the world was entering into an______, enough water was sucked up into the ______that there was land connecting what is now ______with what is now ______. This strip of land is known as the ______across the ______.
It is believed that the first people to come to North America were probably following their ______, like the ______. Over time, these people (who we now call ______) spread out over all of North and South America, setting up different types of civilization based on the ______and______of the region.
There is much that scientists are still trying to learn about these early people that came to the Americas. A very important archeological discovery was made right here in ______, in a place that archeologists call ______in ______, near ______.
Archeologists have determined that people lived in this area almost ______years ago, making it one of the ______archeological sites in ______.