Home Quiz Learn Some Archaeology Words!
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1 Question
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To dig away a covering.

Biofact

Excavate

Tradition
2 Question
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Something left behind after decay.

Relic

Hypothesis

Pictograph
3 Question
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Being a stone tool.

Dating

Material Culture

Lithic
4 Question
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Ancient objects made by people.

Culinary

Artifact

Observation
5 Question
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A chamber wholly or partly underground.

Crypt

Survey

Dunhuang
6 Question
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Image worshipped as a God.

Ethnography

Stratigraphy

Idol
7 Question
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The middle part of the Stone Age.

Mesolithic

Hearth

Context
8 Question
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A person engaged in the study of archaeology.

Pick

Stratum 

Archaeologist
9 Question
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An informal term for an archaeological excavation.

Test pit

Dig

Cairn
10 Question
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Archaeological investigations taking place in the field.

Fieldwork

Rock Art

Hypothesis
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The exposure, processing, and recording of archaeological remains.

Post hole

Ethnohistory

Excavation
12 Question
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Loose sediment excavated from a trench.

Spoil

Preservation

Ceramic
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An artifact worked on only one side.

Trait

Uniface

Bureaucracy
14 Question
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An ornamental vase on a pedestal.

Urn

Provenience

Processual
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A fragment of pottery or glass.

Aristocracy

Chronology

Sherd
16 Question
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Containers or other articles made of fired clay.

Profile

Pottery

Transit
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The study of the characteristics and weathering of soil.

Pedology

Cache

Achaemenid
18 Question
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A pile of refuse located near a previous habitation site.

Cairn

Midden

Topsoil
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A figure inscribed onto a rock surface by grinding and incising.

Herpetology

Trowel

Petroglyph
20 Question
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A cemetery containing cremation burials in urns. 

Ufology

Urnfield

Indology