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