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