Idioma Moderno: Arqueología Modelo de examen

Section B: Vocabulary from glossary

1)A fragment of something, particulary pottery is known as a

_______________________.
2) The distance through an object, as distinct from width or height, is
its________________.
3) What you get when you grind wheat: ______________.
4) A long narrow ditch which archaeologists used to dig as a method of
excavation:__________________
5) Brown material consisting of partly decomposed vegetable matter forming a deposit
on acidic, boggy, ground, which is dried for use in as fuel:___________
6) _______________of the stratigraphy in an archaeological site is caused by alterations
in the deposition of artefacts, for example by digging drains or animal activity or
erosion.
7) A _____________ is a form of prejudice, preference or an inclination, especially one
that inhibits impartial judgment.
8) Falsifications are an example of a ____________, a kind of practical joke designed to
deceive experts.
9) A small wingless parasitic insects that live on the skin of mammals and
birds:_____________________
10) A ______________is an old dump for domestic waste which may consist of animal
bone, human excrement, botanical material, shells etc.

Section C
Archaeology Essentials chapters 1 and 2

1. Give an example of a scholar who by surveying and meticulously recording a

site succeeding in proving that it had not been constructed by supernatural
entities: ___________________________
2. What was scientific about the first scientific excavations in the USA?
_____________________________________________________________
3. What fundamental principle in archaeology was formulated by a man who
studied rocks? _______________________________
4. What was it that provided antiquarians and historians with for the tattoos Celts
and Britons? ________________________________
5. What was the archaeological achievement of General Augustus Lane-Fox Pitt-
Rivers? _____________________________________

6. What new technology after WWII allowed the age of undated sites and finds
anywhere in the world to be directly determined without cross-cultural
comparisons?________________________________
7. Artifacts that can’t be carried around are known as ___________

8. What do studies of animal behavior and cutmarks on animal bones suggest about
the nature of Paleolithic hunting ability?
________________________________________________________________
9. An earthwork constructed in southern England, in 1960 is an early example of
what? _________________________________________

10. What is that you might find buried to placate supernatural powers?
____________

11. How was it that thousands of clay writing tablets have survived from to the
present day from the Near East? ____________________

12. On what kind of object might you use electricity in the process of restoration?
_____________