Memorize these and recognize 35.8% of all Archaeology clues.
| # | Answer | Count | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stonehenge | 8 | William Stukeley thought this site was a Druid temple when he excavated it in the 18th century |
| 2 | bronze | 6 | Found in 1982, a ship that sank off Turkey c. 1300 B.C. carried 1 ton of tin & 10 tons of copper, the perfect mixture to make this alloy |
| 3 | the Dead Sea Scrolls | 6 | This collection of nearly 1,000 religious texts was discovered beginning in 1947 at Qumran |
| 4 | Pompeii | 5 | In 2024 researchers announced the discovery of the skeletons of a man & a woman trapped at this Italian site by a deadly eruption |
| 5 | Machu Picchu | 5 | These Inca ruins near Cusco, Peru weren't discovered until 1911 |
| 6 | Easter Island | 5 | You know the big heads on this Pacific island? Jo Anne van Tilburg has shown that they have bodies, if you just dig |
| 7 | Cro-Magnon | 5 | A fossil found in Portugal may have been the child of Neanderthals & these early modern humans |
| 8 | the Rosetta Stone | 5 | This slab that's inscribed in 3 different languages was found by the French in 1799 |
| 9 | Herculaneum | 4 | 18th century archaeologists uncovered the Villa of the Papyri, an ancient library, in this neighbor to Pompeii |
| 10 | (Heinrich) Schliemann | 4 | In the 1869 work "Ithaka, der Peloponnes und Troja", he announced his theory that Troy was at Hissarlik |
| 11 | Ur | 3 | In 1922 Leonard Woolley began unearthing this Sumerian city, enhancing our knowledge of Mesopotamia |
| 12 | the sphinx | 3 | In 2013 the stone paws of one of these creatures dedicated to Egyptian King Menkaure were found in Israel |
| 13 | Neanderthal | 3 | This type of man, reconstructed here, lived in Europe until about 30,000 years ago |
| 14 | Lucy | 3 | Hadar in Ethiopia is the site where the 3.2-million-year-old remains of an early hominid given this female name were found |
| 15 | Jericho | 3 | Kathleen Kenyon concluded that this biblical city was an abandoned ruin long before Joshua & his trumpets came around |
| 16 | Homo erectus | 3 | ( Kelly of the Clue Crew holds a partial skull at the Smithsonian Hall of Human Origins.) The enlarged brain of this early human species helped it bec... |
| 17 | fire | 3 | 2 main methods of making this, friction & striking sparks, were discovered just after the last glacial period |
| 18 | copper | 3 | It was the first nonprecious metal man made into tools & decorative items |
| 19 | Carboniferous | 3 | This coal-forming period of geologic time is split into Mississippian & Pennsylvanian periods |
| 20 | carbon-14 dating | 3 | In the 1940s chemist Willard Libby discovered this method of dating ancient artifacts |
| 21 | Africa | 3 | It is now generally believed earliest humans lived on this continent |
| 22 | a dig | 3 | An archaeological excavation, or most common activity there |
| 23 | Vikings | 3 | Some yarn found on Baffin Island suggests these people visited there in the 13th century |
| 24 | Peking Man | 3 | During WWII, the bones of this, China's best-known human fossil, disappeared |
| 25 | horse | 3 | This animal resembling today's Przewalski's was a source of meat in Europe 30,000 years ago |
| 26 | catacombs | 3 | In 2009 the earliest known depictions of the Apostles from the 4th c. were found in these underground tombs in Rome |
| 27 | (Howard) Carter | 3 | This Egyptologist first became associated with Lord Carnarvon in 1906 while excavating the Theban necropolis |
| 28 | writing | 2 | Historians generally agree that the development of this separates prehistory from history |
| 29 | Tyrannosaurus rex | 2 | Found in 1995, Giganotosaurus Carolinii may top this as the largest meat-eating dinosaur |
| 30 | Turkey | 2 | Archaeologist Schliemann excavated ruins of ancient Troy in this country |
| 31 | Troy | 2 | Using descriptions from the "Iliad", Heinrich Schliemann began excavating this city, or cities one on top of another, in 1870 |
| 32 | trilobites | 2 | These 3-lobed sea creatures breathed through gills on their legs |
| 33 | trees | 2 | Dendochronology uses the growth rings of these to date certain finds |
| 34 | the Spanish Armada | 2 | In 1970 the wreck of the El Gran Grifon, part of this fleet, was found off Scotland 382 years after it sank |
| 35 | the Iron Age | 2 | The beginning of this metallic age varied geographically, with China being a latecomer in around 600 B.C. |
| 36 | the dog | 2 | Bones dating from Mesolithic times indicate that this wolf relative was the first domesticated animal |
| 37 | teeth | 2 | Notoriously bad, these British body parts are giving University of York researchers knowledge about the Victorian diet |
| 38 | Pollen | 2 | Lennart von Post first counted grains of this from plants to reconstruct past vegetation |
| 39 | Peru | 2 | In 1993 this South American country awarded Maria Reiche the Order of the Sun for her work on the mysterious Nazca Lines |
| 40 | New Mexico | 2 | Ice Age footprints have been discovered in a dry ancient lake bed in White Sands National Park in this state |
| 41 | Mexico | 2 | Human sacrifices were once thrown into the Cenote or Sacred Well at Chichen Ittza in this country |
| 42 | Java | 2 | Indonesian island well known to archaeologists for its remains of Homo erectus |
| 43 | Jamestown | 2 | Artifacts & the remains of colonial leaders have been found at the site of this first permanent English settlement in America |
| 44 | jade | 2 | In 1995 the body of Han dynasty king Liu Wu was found buried with a shroud made of this green gemstone |
| 45 | iron | 2 | The method of working this metal was not mastered until about 1500 B.C. under the Hittites |
| 46 | Homo sapiens | 2 | In a common scientific classification of Neanderthal man, Neanderthalensis follows these 2 words |
| 47 | Homo habilis | 2 | In the 1960s the Leakey family found remains of this early human whose name means "Handy Man" |
| 48 | Hammurabi | 2 | An ancient stile, or large slab, depicts this man, who laid down the law way back when |
| 49 | Guatemala | 2 | Ruins of Mayan temples & palaces have been found at Tikal in this country that borders Belize |
| 50 | Egypt | 2 | "Pyramidiots" is the term Zahi Hawass of this country's antiquities council used for people who think aliens built ancient structures |
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