Archaeologists

Q. What is the major difference between historians and archaeologists?

1. Historians study and write about history while archaeologists only write about history.
2. Historians analyse old artefacts and write about them while archaeologists study history.
3. Historians study and write about history while archaeologists analyse old artefacts.
4. Both historians and archaeologists study and write about history.

Q. What do you mean by an archaeological survey?

1. The survey about plants.
2. The survey about human evolution.
3. The survey about animals.
4. The survey about history.

Q. Archaeologists work on the old manuscripts and inscriptions that they find.

1. donating
2. translating
3. preserving
4. selling

Q. Which is the branch of science that deals with the study of "human history based on the analysis of old artefacts" called?

1. History
2. Anthropology
3. Sociology
4. Archaeology

Q. Define an archaeologist.

1. Somebody who researches data from primary sources and then writes about it.
2. Somebody who researches data from primary sources and then gives the primary sources to museums.
3. Somebody who researches data from secondary sources and then writes about it.
4. Somebody who researches data from secondary sources and then gives the secondary sources to museums.

Q. Keerthi has decided that she wants to find buried treasure and old coins. She plans to search for these things in her garden. Her brother Sid is studying about the past from the old weapons and the old coins which he had found some days ago. He is also planning to give them to the museum when he finishes studying them. Who among them can be called an archaeologist?

1. Keerthi
2. Sid
3. None of them is an archaeologist
4. Keerthi and Sid

Q. Archaeologists work on the old manuscripts and inscriptions that they find.

1. donating
2. translating
3. preserving
4. selling

Q. Which is the branch of science that deals with the study of "human history based on the analysis of old artefacts" called?

a) History b) Sociology
c)Archaeology d) Anthropology

Q. Define an archaeologist.

1. Somebody who researches data from primary sources and then writes about it.
2. Somebody who researches data from primary sources and then gives the primary sources to museums.
3. Somebody who researches data from secondary sources and then writes about it.
4. Somebody who researches data from secondary sources and then gives the secondary sources to museums.

Q. Archaeologists are the same as historians.

1. True
2. False

Q. Archaeologists are the same as historians.

1. True
2. False

Q. Which is the branch of science that deals with the study of "human history based on the analysis of old artefacts" called?

1. History
2. Sociology
3. Anthropology
4. Archaeology

Q. Select the incorrect option.

1. Archaeologists are people who study about the past based on the old things they find like bones, pots, manuscripts etc.
2. Archaeologists are people who dig the ground to find old things like dinosaur skeletons.
3. Archaeologists are people who study about scientific facts.
4. Archaeologists are different from historians.

Q. Select the incorrect option.

1. Archaeologists are people who study about the past based on the old things they find like bones, pots, manuscripts etc.
2. Archaeologists are people who dig the ground to find old things like dinosaur skeletons.
3. Archaeologists are people who study about scientific facts.
4. Archaeologists are different from historians.