1. And why it has nothing to do with INDIANA JONES!
Archaeology
And why it has nothing to do with
INDIANA JONES!

2. Archeology
The study of artifacts to learn about people’s culture & past.

3. What’s an Artifact? An artifact cans be a lot of different things.
Pots
Tools
Art

4. What do Archaeologist do?
They don’t get chased by Nazis
They don’t carry around bull whips
They don’t fall into pits of poisonous snakes
And
They don’t dig up dinosaurs…
those are paleontologists

5. What do they do? They excavate archaeological sites.
Excavate – means to dig layer by layer.
Site – is any place that has remains of human use.

6. How do they do it?
They survey the area like a crew building a new road.
They grid the area making an exact map.
They carefully dig and record the location of anything they find on their maps.

7. How old is an artifact ? Carbon 14 Dating
measures the amount of carbon-14 left in a once living things. It tells archaeologist how old it is.

8. How old is an artifact ? Stratigraphy -
Artifacts found deep down in the earth are older than those found
higher up near the surface.

9. Why?
Preservation - Keeping something from injury or harm, especially sites related to our past.
Cataloging - identifying artifacts and making a record of them. Each artifact is given a code,
that indicates where it was found on a site.