The Work of the Archaeologist
  • 1. What is an Archaeologist?
A) People who does archery
B) People from Archeol
C) A painter
D) People who search for and then study artefacts to help build up a picture of the lives of people long ago
  • 2. What does the term Neolithic mean?
A) Large Stone
B) Stone Age
C) New Stone Age
D) Bronze Age
  • 3. What does the word megalithic mean?
A) Mega Stone Age
B) Large Stone
C) New Stone Age
D) Stone Age
  • 4. What was a court cairn?
A) Jesters house
B) Court Houses
C) Stone Age houses
D) Megalithic monuments which were built as burial places
  • 5. What was a dolmen?
A) They were stone Arches
B) They marked burial sites
C) They were bridges
D) They were men
  • 6. Describe a dolmen
A) A large capstone
B) Three large stones with a large capstone on top
C) Three large stones
D) One large stone with a large capstone on top
  • 7. Dendrochronology means
A) Used to remove teeth
B) Used to date oak timber on the basis of the pattern of growth rings
C) Used to repair teeth
D) A calender
  • 8. Artefacts are
A) Mass-produced Art
B) Human-made objects - arrowheads, pots, jewellery etc
C) Facts about Art
D) Old Art Galleries
  • 9. B.C. means
A) Before Christmas
B) Before College
C) Before Christopher Columbus
D) Before Christ
  • 10. A. D. means
A) Another Day
B) Autumn Day
C) Anno Domini Year of our Lord
D) Any Day
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