QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Q. How do archaeologists know where to dig? A. They look for things that builders or farmers have uncovered, or they look for old buildings, ruins, unusual mounds, sunken spots in the land, or artifacts on the surface of the ground. Q. What are archaeologists looking for? A. Archaeologists are looking for evidence of human activities, things made or used by people in the past. These things are called artifacts. Q. What kinds of artifacts do archaeologists find? A. Mostly things made of stone, pottery, or bone. Things made of plants or wood, called organic materials, decay over time. But stone, pottery, or harder organic materials, like bone or shell, last much longer. Q. What can archaeologists learn from artifacts? A. Artifacts can tell us is how old a site is. People used different stone tools at different times. Large stone points may look like arrowheads, but were made for long lances used to hunt mammoths. Over time, as the animals people hunted changed, and so did the projectile
