Archaeology: Digging and Scraping Quiz Quiz

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What was “a very large earthenware jar with a wide round mouth used throughout the ancient Greek world, especially for holding and storing large quantities of food or liquids”?

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1.

What is the scientific discipline concerned with dating and interpreting past events according to the analysis of tree rings?

2.

What was the first standardized tradition of toolmaking of Homo erectus and early H. sapiens?

3.

What is the name for a central defensively oriented district in ancient Greek cities?

4.

What was an open space that served as a meeting ground for citizens in ancient Greece?

5.

Which material provided the main source of tools and weapons for Stone Age humans, making it relatively easy to shape arrowheads?

6.

Which is an ancient vessel form used as a storage jar and one of the principal vessel shapes in Greek pottery?

7.

Which is the fossilized excrement of animals?

8.

Which was the most widespread and historically significant writing system in the ancient Middle East?

9.

What is the study of written matter recorded on hard or durable material?

10.

In architecture, what is an interior space whose roof rests on pillars or columns?

11.

In archaeology, which term means “in the natural or original position or place”?

12.

In geology, what is the material in which something is embedded?

13.

Which is described as a tool culture traditionally associated with Neanderthal humans in Europe?

14.

Which is an ancient writing material named after the plant from which it was derived?

15.

What is the scientific discipline concerned with all aspects of soils?

16.

What was “a very large earthenware jar with a wide round mouth used throughout the ancient Greek world, especially for holding and storing large quantities of food or liquids”?

17.

Which is the word for an ancient Greek city-state?

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1. What is the scientific discipline concerned with dating and interpreting past events according to the analysis of tree rings?

2. What was the first standardized tradition of toolmaking of Homo erectus and early H. sapiens?

3. What is the name for a central defensively oriented district in ancient Greek cities?

4. What was an open space that served as a meeting ground for citizens in ancient Greece?

5. Which material provided the main source of tools and weapons for Stone Age humans, making it relatively easy to shape arrowheads?

6. Which is an ancient vessel form used as a storage jar and one of the principal vessel shapes in Greek pottery?

7. Which is the fossilized excrement of animals?

8. Which was the most widespread and historically significant writing system in the ancient Middle East?

9. What is the study of written matter recorded on hard or durable material?

10. In architecture, what is an interior space whose roof rests on pillars or columns?

11. In archaeology, which term means “in the natural or original position or place”?

12. In geology, what is the material in which something is embedded?

13. Which is described as a tool culture traditionally associated with Neanderthal humans in Europe?

14. Which is an ancient writing material named after the plant from which it was derived?

15. What is the scientific discipline concerned with all aspects of soils?

16. What was “a very large earthenware jar with a wide round mouth used throughout the ancient Greek world, especially for holding and storing large quantities of food or liquids”?

17. Which is the word for an ancient Greek city-state?

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1.

What is the scientific discipline concerned with dating and interpreting past events according to the analysis of tree rings?

2.

What was the first standardized tradition of toolmaking of Homo erectus and early H. sapiens?

3.

What is the name for a central defensively oriented district in ancient Greek cities?

4.

What was an open space that served as a meeting ground for citizens in ancient Greece?

5.

Which material provided the main source of tools and weapons for Stone Age humans, making it relatively easy to shape arrowheads?

6.

Which is an ancient vessel form used as a storage jar and one of the principal vessel shapes in Greek pottery?

7.

Which is the fossilized excrement of animals?

8.

Which was the most widespread and historically significant writing system in the ancient Middle East?

9.

What is the study of written matter recorded on hard or durable material?

10.

In architecture, what is an interior space whose roof rests on pillars or columns?

11.

In archaeology, which term means “in the natural or original position or place”?

12.

In geology, what is the material in which something is embedded?

13.

Which is described as a tool culture traditionally associated with Neanderthal humans in Europe?

14.

Which is an ancient writing material named after the plant from which it was derived?

15.

What is the scientific discipline concerned with all aspects of soils?

16.

What was “a very large earthenware jar with a wide round mouth used throughout the ancient Greek world, especially for holding and storing large quantities of food or liquids”?

17.

Which is the word for an ancient Greek city-state?