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Exploring Archaeology: A Knowledge Quiz

Test your knowledge of archaeology and its fascinating insights into human history through this engaging quiz.

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1 ________ detect minute deviations in the Earth's magnetic field caused by iron artifacts, kilns, some types of stone structures, and even ditches and middens.

2 Writing as it is known today did not exist in human civilization until the ________, in a relatively small number of technologically advanced civilizations.

3 This view is often espoused in works of popular fiction, such as ________, The Mummy, and King Solomon's Mines.

4 The ________ historian Flavio Biondo (1392–1463) is recognised as one of Europe’s first archaeologists.

5 In the UK, popular archaeology programs such as Time Team and ________ have resulted in a huge upsurge in public interest[citation needed].

6 Hodge the Director of the Southwest Museum in ________ CA, released a statement that the museum would no longer purchase or accept collections from looted contexts.

7 In contrast ________ has existed for at least 200,000 years, and other species of Homo for millions of years (see Human evolution).

8 [66] In Scotland, Wales and ________, the same responsibilities lie with Historic Scotland,[67] Cadw[68] and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency[69] respectively.

9 For instance, many of the tombs of the Egyptian ________ were looted during antiquity.

10 It can reveal several types of information usually not accessible to survey, such as ________, three-dimensional structure, and verifiably primary context.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the archaeological site of Topoxte (pictured) has the best surviving example of Postclassic Maya architecture in the Petén region of Guatemala.
  • the archaeological finds from Steeple Langford include a Bronze Age palstave and a Romano-British painted pebble.
  • museum examples of sprang were misidentified as lace or knitting until archaeological discoveries brought public attention to the overlooked needlework technique.
  • according to the National Geographic Society, Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva found the richest unlooted pre-Columbian tomb in the Western Hemisphere.
  • the Gothic Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha (pictured) in Coimbra, Portugal, stayed abandoned under mud and water for over 300 years before it was rescued in an archaeological intervention.
  • the Ness of Brodgar archaeological site in Orkney includes the remains of a large building described as a Neolithic "cathedral".
  • the seal of Baruch ben Neriah, a legendary 6th century BCE scribe and disciple of the Biblical prophet Jeremiah, was found imprinted on two clay bullae excavated in 1975 and 1996.
  • the four-part A&E documentary series The Greatest Pharaohs is being used in many college and university courses on anthropology and archaeology.
  • the discovery of horse bones at the archaeological site of Hallur in south India refuted the theory that horses were introduced to this region as part of the Indo-Aryan migration.
  • the Tarxien Temples (pictured) in Malta were discovered when the owner of a field figured that the large stones his workers kept hitting while ploughing may have some archaeological significance.
  • a wheelhouse in archaeology is a prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland that was neither a wheel, nor perhaps a house.
  • American archaeologist and flintknapper Errett Callahan produces and sells obsidian scalpels that are 100 times sharper than the traditional surgical scalpels made of steel.
  • archaeologist Francis Turville-Petre, discoverer of Neanderthal remains in Israel, was portrayed in works by authors W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood.
  • archaeologist Eigil Knuth was co-leader of the first Danish Greenland expedition to make use of an airplane, a Tiger Moth.
  • archaeological evidence has shown that the Indian threadfish (Alectis indicus) has long been a resource for humans, with prehistoric and more modern sites in the United Arab Emirates preserving its remains.
  • archaeological excavations near the Andries DuBois House (pictured) in Wallkill, New York, found evidence that it was built half a century later than previously believed.
  • archaeologist Natalia Polosmak has been banned from her best known excavation, the Ice Maiden (pictured), because of ethnic politics.
  • British archaeologist J. Desmond Clark discovered a site at Zambia's Kalambo Falls containing artifacts from over 250,000 years of human culture.
  • Trowulan in Mojokerto, east Java, is surrounded by a huge archaeological site (pictured), and is believed to be the capital of the ancient Majapahit Empire.
  • Gumarcaj, in Guatemala, is archaeologically and ethnohistorically the best known of the Late Postclassic highland Maya capitals.
  • George Hedges, a lawyer who represented Hollywood stars and studios, was part of an archaeological team that discovered the remains of the ancient frankincense trading city of Ubar.
  • Ahmad Hasan Dani, an expert of South Asian archaeology and Ancient history, was the first Muslim graduate of the Banaras Hindu University.
  • "Palestinian archaeology" can refer to a field of archaeological inquiry known as Syro-Palestinian archaeology, and more recently, to archaeological research conducted by Palestinians themselves.
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